Philosophical Approaches to Politics and Ethics

Yang Guorong, Ph.D. (1988), East China Normal University, is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at that university. He has published nearly twenty monographs and dozens of articles in Chinese, many of which are being translated into English.Paul J. D’Ambrosio, Ph.D. (2013) is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at East China Normal University. He has published over one hundred articles, reviews, and chapters, and translated over a dozen books. His most recent monograph is You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity (2021), with Hans-Georg Moeller.Sharon Y. Small obtained her Ph.D from the department of Philosophy at Peking University (2018). Her publications mainly focus on the metaphysical thought, philosophy of government, and ethics in pre-Qin Daoist thought through excavated manuscripts ranging from the Laozi to Huang-Lao. She has also translated several articles and books authored by leading scholars in China.

• Translator’s IntroductionIntroduction12341 An Outline of Political Philosophy1 What Is Politics?2 The Necessity of Politics3 Political Legitimacy4 The Legality of Politics5 Political Efficacy6 Morality and Politics2 Your Rights, My Duties: Perspectives on the Transformations and Intersections of Rights and Duties1233 On Moral Behavior12344 Approaches to Humanistic Research1234565 The Epistemological Orientation of Chinese Culture12346 The Gettier Problem in Epistemology127 Wisdom, Opinions, and the Individualization of Philosophy: Meta-Philosophical Issues1238 How to Do Philosophy122.1 The Human and Holistic Perspectives2.2 Theoretical Thinking and Conceptual Activity2.3 Return to Pure Existence2.4 History and Thought2.5 Interactions between Theory and Experience, Wisdom and Knowledge9 A Theory of Wisdom, from the Perspective of World Philosophy1 Context and Origins2 Back to Wisdom: against the Abstraction of Wisdom3 Epistemology in a Broad Sense: Connecting the Threads of Epistemology, Ontology and Axiology4 How to Achieve the Transformation of Knowledge into Wisdom5 The Cultivation of Personality and the Creation of Values and Principles6 Language, Consciousness, and Being10 The Implications of a Dialogue between Philosophical Systems12311 Confucianism: Original Form, Historical Branches, and Future DirectionsAn Examination of “Humaneness” and “Propriety”12312 The Historical Implications of Confucian Values1234513 The Perspective of the Human Way in the Debate between Heaven and Humans12314 Multiple Dimensions of Ideals throughout History1215 The Philosophical Significance of the Guan School: a Study Based on Zhang Zai’s Thought1234BibliographyIndex