Karyn Lai is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her research in Chinese philosophy engages Chinese and Western philosophical traditions. She is author of Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed., 2017), which has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Portuguese.Rick Benitez is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He studied Classics and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an editor (with Karyn Lai and Hyun Jin Kim) of Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Chenyang Li is Professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he founded the philosophy program. He is the author of The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy (1999), The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony (2013), Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry (2023) and over 100 essays.

This volume is comparative philosophy exemplified – generative, lucid, gripping, and provoking. Drawing on classical traditions from around the globe and applying them to contemporary philosophical and political questions, these essays together provide a variety of ways of thinking about harmony as a virtue and a value, as well as ways in which the search for harmony might actually contribute to the ongoing ills of this world. Harmony, this volume shows us, is a concept that connects self and world, aesthetics and politics, intuition and reason and the heart-mind. We may only hope it does so for the good.

• IntroductionPart I. Considering Harmony1. The Bow and the Lyre: Structural Opposition and Harmonic Tension in Heraclitus- Rick Benitez2. The Conceptualisation of Harmony in Indian Aesthetic Thought: the Santa Rasa- Meera Baindur3. A Principled and Context-Sensitive Harmony Within and Without: Zhu Xi’s Conception of Harmony- Yat-Hung LeungPart II. Questioning Harmony4. The Zhuangzi: Disruptive and harmonious engagements with the world- Karyn Lai5. Kaibara Ekken on Making Room for Disagreement: An Edo Confucian Defense of Moderate Adversariality- Matthew D. Walker6. Harmony and Hegemony: Enactivism and Oppressive Equilibria- Lee Wilson7. A Buddhist Critique of Harmony- James Mark Shields8. Real harmony of the self: Enactivism and the Kyoto School- Yuko Ishihara & Katsunori MiyaharaPart III. Reimagining Harmony9. Strong Harmony- Chenyang Li10. The Harmony of Opposites in Design and Philosophy- Derek Lomas & Haian Xue11. Music and the existential significance of harmony- Goetz Richter12. Making Harmony Safe for Democracy- Avery Kolers13. Constitutional Dialogue as Active Confucian Harmony- Sungmoon KimIndex

Karyn Lai is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her research in Chinese philosophy engages Chinese and Western philosophical traditions. She is author of Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed., 2017), which has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Portuguese.Rick Benitez is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He studied Classics and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an editor (with Karyn Lai and Hyun Jin Kim) of Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Chenyang Li is Professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he founded the philosophy program. He is the author of The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy (1999), The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony (2013), Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry (2023) and over 100 essays.

This volume is comparative philosophy exemplified – generative, lucid, gripping, and provoking. Drawing on classical traditions from around the globe and applying them to contemporary philosophical and political questions, these essays together provide a variety of ways of thinking about harmony as a virtue and a value, as well as ways in which the search for harmony might actually contribute to the ongoing ills of this world. Harmony, this volume shows us, is a concept that connects self and world, aesthetics and politics, intuition and reason and the heart-mind. We may only hope it does so for the good.

• IntroductionPart I. Considering Harmony1. The Bow and the Lyre: Structural Opposition and Harmonic Tension in Heraclitus- Rick Benitez2. The Conceptualisation of Harmony in Indian Aesthetic Thought: the Santa Rasa- Meera Baindur3. A Principled and Context-Sensitive Harmony Within and Without: Zhu Xi’s Conception of Harmony- Yat-Hung LeungPart II. Questioning Harmony4. The Zhuangzi: Disruptive and harmonious engagements with the world- Karyn Lai5. Kaibara Ekken on Making Room for Disagreement: An Edo Confucian Defense of Moderate Adversariality- Matthew D. Walker6. Harmony and Hegemony: Enactivism and Oppressive Equilibria- Lee Wilson7. A Buddhist Critique of Harmony- James Mark Shields8. Real harmony of the self: Enactivism and the Kyoto School- Yuko Ishihara & Katsunori MiyaharaPart III. Reimagining Harmony9. Strong Harmony- Chenyang Li10. The Harmony of Opposites in Design and Philosophy- Derek Lomas & Haian Xue11. Music and the existential significance of harmony- Goetz Richter12. Making Harmony Safe for Democracy- Avery Kolers13. Constitutional Dialogue as Active Confucian Harmony- Sungmoon KimIndex

Karyn Lai is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her research in Chinese philosophy engages Chinese and Western philosophical traditions. She is author of Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed., 2017), which has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Portuguese.Rick Benitez is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He studied Classics and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an editor (with Karyn Lai and Hyun Jin Kim) of Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Chenyang Li is Professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he founded the philosophy program. He is the author of The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy (1999), The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony (2013), Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry (2023) and over 100 essays.

This volume is comparative philosophy exemplified – generative, lucid, gripping, and provoking. Drawing on classical traditions from around the globe and applying them to contemporary philosophical and political questions, these essays together provide a variety of ways of thinking about harmony as a virtue and a value, as well as ways in which the search for harmony might actually contribute to the ongoing ills of this world. Harmony, this volume shows us, is a concept that connects self and world, aesthetics and politics, intuition and reason and the heart-mind. We may only hope it does so for the good.

• IntroductionPart I. Considering Harmony1. The Bow and the Lyre: Structural Opposition and Harmonic Tension in Heraclitus- Rick Benitez2. The Conceptualisation of Harmony in Indian Aesthetic Thought: the Santa Rasa- Meera Baindur3. A Principled and Context-Sensitive Harmony Within and Without: Zhu Xi’s Conception of Harmony- Yat-Hung LeungPart II. Questioning Harmony4. The Zhuangzi: Disruptive and harmonious engagements with the world- Karyn Lai5. Kaibara Ekken on Making Room for Disagreement: An Edo Confucian Defense of Moderate Adversariality- Matthew D. Walker6. Harmony and Hegemony: Enactivism and Oppressive Equilibria- Lee Wilson7. A Buddhist Critique of Harmony- James Mark Shields8. Real harmony of the self: Enactivism and the Kyoto School- Yuko Ishihara & Katsunori MiyaharaPart III. Reimagining Harmony9. Strong Harmony- Chenyang Li10. The Harmony of Opposites in Design and Philosophy- Derek Lomas & Haian Xue11. Music and the existential significance of harmony- Goetz Richter12. Making Harmony Safe for Democracy- Avery Kolers13. Constitutional Dialogue as Active Confucian Harmony- Sungmoon KimIndex