Persons Emerging: Three Neo-Confucian Perspectives on Transcending Self-Boundaries (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Synopsis

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.Persons Emerging explores the renewed idea of the Confucian person in the eleventh-century philosophies of Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, and Zhang Zai. Galia Patt-Shamir discusses their responses to the Confucian challenge that the Way, as perfection, can be broadened by the person who travels it. Suggesting that the three neo-Confucian philosophers undertake the classical Confucian task of "broadening the way," each proposes to deal with it from a different angle: Zhou Dunyi offers a metaphysical emerging out of the infinitude-finitude boundary, Shao Yong emerges out of the epistemological boundary between in and out, and Zhang Zai offers a pragmatic emerging out of the boundary between life and death.Through the lens of these three Song-period China philosophers, the idea of "transcending self-boundaries" places neo-Confucian philosophies within the global philosophical context. Patt-Shamir questions the Confucian notions of person, Way, and how they relate to human flourishing to highlight how the emergence of personhood demands transcending metaphysical, epistemological, and moral self-boundaries.

Copyright:

2021

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

276 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781438485621

Related ISBNs:

9781438485614, 9781438485607

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

Date of Addition:

06/30/25

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SUNY

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy

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