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List of contents
Notes on Contributors
1. Michael Slote Encounters Chinese Philosophy: An Introduction, Yong Huang
2. Receptivity, Reason, and Responsiveness: From Feeling and Thinking to Action, Karyn Lai
3. Michael Slote on Yin/Yang and Chinese Philosophy, Vincent Shen
4. Slote’s Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind versus A Neo-Confucian Unified Theory of the Mind, JeeLoo Liu
5. Two Paths to One Goal: The Unity of the Heart-Mind in Michael Slote and Wang Yangming, Xinzhong Yao and Yan Zhang
6. Belief, Desire, and Besire: Slote and Wang Yangming on Moral Motivation, Yong Huang
7. The Value of Receptivity and Yin/Yang Clusters for Philosophy, Robin R Wang
8. Empathy, Meaning and Approval in the Mencius and Michael Slote, R.A.H. King
9. Moral Therapy and the Imperative of Empathy: Mencius Encountering Slote, Tao Jiang
10. Slote’s Moral Sentimentalism and Confucian Qing-ism, On-cho Ng
11. Striving for the Impossible: Early Confucians on Perfect Virtue in an Imperfect World, Aaron Stalnaker
12. Virtue Ethics, Symmetry and Confucian Harmonious Appropriation of Self with Others, Qingjie James Wang
13. Replies to Commentators, Michael Slote
Index
About the author
Yong Huang is Professor of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Summary
Michael Slote is one of the most prominent philosophers working in the discipline today. By creating a two-way dialogue between philosophers specializing in Chinese philosophy and a central thinker from the Anglo-American tradition, this volume brings cross-cultural philosophy to life.
From his early contributions in ethics, metaethics, philosophy of mind, moral psychology and epistemology to his recent investigations into the relationship between Western philosophy and Chinese philosophy, an international team of scholars of Chinese philosophy cover Slote’s sentimentalism, his understanding of Chinese concepts Yin and Yang and explores the role Early Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism can play in his work.
Each chapter extends Slote’s ideas by considering them from a Chinese philosophical perspective and Slote is given the opportunity to respond to each of the contributors’ interpretation of his work. Applied to Classical works such as the Zhuangzi and the Yijing, his ground-breaking thoughts on morality, care ethics and empathy are taken in new, exciting directions.
Foreword
Michael Slote and a team of Chinese philosophers critically engage with one another's ideas and reveal the benefits of cross-cultural philosophy.
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This book is more a record of lively philosophical activity than a flat presentation of philosophical ideas. It is a remarkable demonstration of cross-cultural dialogue that can hopefully lead to constructive transformations of both sides.
