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| | Encyclopedia4U - China - Encyclopedia Article |
 | | Chinese astrology and constellationss were often used for divination purposes. | | | It is possible for someone to claim to be a Buddhist while living life according to Taoist principles and participating in ancestor worship rituals. | | | Prior to that, manuscripts of the Classics and religious texts (mainly Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist) were manually written by ink brushes and distributed. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/c/china.html
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| | Chinese philosophy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Questions about the nature and existence of (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions) God which have profoundly influenced Western philosophy have not been important in Chinese philosophies. | | | These latter two became the determining forces of Chinese thought until the 20th century, with the introduction (Click link for more info and facts about Buddhist philosophy) Buddhist philosophy (mostly during (The imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907) Tang Dynasty) negotiated largely through perceived similarities with Daoism. | | | When the Shang were overthrown by the (The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism) Zhou, a new political, religious and philosophical concept was introduced called the " (Click link for more info and facts about Mandate of Heaven) Mandate of Heaven". |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_philosophy.htm
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| | How "Chinese" Was Kant |
| | In traditional Chinese societies the commitment to filial piety is intimately bound up with a belief in ghosts: the reason the deceased must be worshipped is precisely that their ghosts are still lingering around, and must therefore be provided for, pleased, and (if necessary) appeased, just as much as when their bodies were still alive. | | | That doesn't make him Chinese (see note 21); but it does bring his general world view much more closely in line with the traditional Chinese world view than it is normally believed to be. | | | Filial piety is so strong that it often survives well after the death of one's grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles, in the form of ancestor worship. |
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http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/srp/arts/HCWK.html
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| | CHAPTER V THE PROBLEM OF HARMONIOUS COMMUNITIES IN ANCIENT CHINA |
| | According to ancient Chinese thought, a man can embody the Way when he understands the unity of Heaven and man, practices the unity of knowledge and action, and creatively reveals the unity of sentiment and scenery. | | | Sages are capable of "establishing the mind of Heaven and Earth, determining the destiny of human lives, restoring discontinued traditions of learning from the past, and commencing a period of supreme peace for one's descendants. | | | Among these, the unity of Heaven and man is the most fundamental, and it is from this that the other two unities are derived. |
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http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-3/chapter_v__the_problem_of_harmon.htm
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| | Plutschow - Xunzi on Human Nature |
| | In sum, ancient Chinese philosophers agreed on a number of fundamental premises: they concurred in their emphasis on benevolent government as a unifying source. | | | The state of Qin that unified China in 221 inspired itself from the legalist school founded by Han Feizi, a disciple of Xunzi. | | | The existence of storytelling as a substitute for ritual is now common knowledge among scholars of mythology and folklore. |
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http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0801/xunzi.htm
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| | Chinese Philosophy |
| | The philosophical categories of this period succeeded Wei and Jin metaphysics and also absorbed Tang Buddhist thought in the Sui and Tang periods. | | | The categories "name" and "actuality" were always contained in traditional Chinese philosophy and the categories "subject" and "object" were borrowed from Buddhism, but all four are related to the question of knowledge. | | | The criterion for the "good" can vary, but, according to traditional Chinese philosophy, unity of "knowledge" and "practice" must be regarded as a prerequisite. |
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http://www.russbo.com/Foundations/part1.htm
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| | Comparative Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The story of Chinese Buddhism over the next two millennia is very much the story of the dialogue between and among foreign and indigenous traditions, as is the story of Confucianism and Daoism during the same period. | | | Some Buddhist, Indian, Confucian, Daoist, and Islamic views should be challenged, and sometimes they will be found deficient either according to agreed-on cross-cultural standards, or because of some form of internal incoherence. | | | For instance, the spread of Buddhism into China from India and central Asia beginning in the first few centuries CE sparked a long tradition of philosophical reaction to its “foreign” ideas from Confucian and Daoist intellectuals -- much of it hostile, some of it appreciative and appropriating, but all of it at least implicitly comparative. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/comparat.htm
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| | Hurst - Chinese Origins |
| | Further, Yu’s argument supports the claim I have made that depicting origins, insofar as this entails the assumption of a disjunction between the prior and subsequent conditions described, is not the habitual purview of Chinese philosophy. | | | Liu investigated the sources of power of the earliest dynasties and asserted that the Shang and Zhou achieved supreme power by relying on feudal lords, but after attaining power couldn’t overcome the nobles they had relied upon; thus the feudal system of power sharing came about. | | | T’ang (and earlier) attempts to understand the nature of wen begin from the assumption that it is veracious. |
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http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0602/hurst.htm
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| | CHAPTER XXIV |
| | They are attempting to appropriate the teachings of this school and accommodate them to German Idealism, in particular to the transcendental philosophy of Kant and the spiritual phenomenology of Hegel. | | | His concept of free and unlimited mind stands in the place of the God of Christianity, thereby giving Neo-Confucianism a religious overtone. | | | Lo Kuang, basing his philosophy on his religious experience, which finds its themes in traditional Scholasticism, adopts Chinese philosophy -- especially classical Confucianism -- in order to make his religious belief suitable for enculturation. |
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http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-11/chapter_xxiv.htm
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| | Chinese ethics and universal human rights |
| | In the Chinese tradition, people are required to "learn hard in the earth in order to upgrade themselves towards Heaven." Because Heaven is impersonalized--silent and passive, humanity is an achievement. | | | Woo (1980) found that the universal unity is the only noticeable motive for the combination of three essential philosophical schools: the Confucian, the Taoist, and the Buddhist. | | | From the very beginning, the Chinese philosophy affirmed the existence of universal truths and morality. |
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http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~alex/education/china/Chinese_ethics.html
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| | Amazon.com: A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy: Books |
| | For those who have studied humanistic Chinese traditions will form an opinion of the Chinese as hard-core pragmatists with no sense of aesthetics or metaphysics. | | | Another matter to bring up, although not necessarily a problem, is Chan's personal faith in Christianity, which may have influenced his choice of word usage and selection of materials. | | | Also important is Chan's treatment of the Tao-Te Ching and its impact on the modern epistemological and metaphysical traditions. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691019649?v=glance
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| | Chinese Religions links |
| | Pictures from The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900-1950, by Holmes Welch | | | Paper abstracts: Conference on the Study of Chinese Buddhism (Hsi Lai Temple, June 2005) | | | Bibliography of Western Language Publications on Chinese Popular Religion (1995 to present), by Philip Clart |
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http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/LINKS270.htm
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| | sophia - tanaka |
| | This is because Searle’s argument is based on an intuition about the mind that ‘we’ all seem to share. | | | Despite being objected to by some, Searle’s Chinese room argument appears very appealing. | | | It then introduces what can be seen as the (implicit) Chinese view of the mind. |
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http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/sophia/vol43no1/tanaka.html
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| | 20th WCP: The Structure of Chinese Language and Ontological Insights: A Collective-Noun Hypothesis* |
| | For one thing, as discussed in the last section, collective nouns in classical Chinese can be directly preceded by numerals or indefinite quantifiers. | | | One tendency regarding the relation between linguistic expressions and their referents seems to be common both in the Chinese semantic tradition and in the Western semantic tradition (at least during their respective classical periods): almost all words were treated as names, and naming was regarded as the main semantic relation. | | | This puzzle is significant because it is concerned with a fundamental philosophical question about the relation between thought and language. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Comp/CompMou.htm
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| | Asian Art - IIAS Newsletter Online |
| | centuries BC), which comprises the works of Confucius, Mencius, and others, is the foundation on which the social and political organizations of traditional Chinese society are built and forms an inherent part of the Chinese moral universe and identity. | | | The comics became an instant success, not only in Taiwan, but also with overseas Chinese families for whom Tsai's comics became a means by which they could interest their children in Chinese culture and the wisdom of the ancients. | | | The renaissance of Chinese canonical works, their removal from the schoolroom to the neon-lit boulevards of modern Taipei and Beijing, is the work of one man: the Taiwanese cartoonist Tsai Chih Chung (1948, Taiwan). |
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http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/iiasn/22/asianart/22ART2.html
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| | The Classical Chinese Philosophy Page |
| | They were exceptionally conservative in following traditional religious notions and were thought to have originated in offices concerned with temples and sacrifices. | | | Because there had originally been no difference between a teacher and an officer, officers being responsible for teaching their subordinates, he believed that each of the schools originated within the major ministries of the government, though in its later development each school became independent. | | | Modern scholars tend to follow in general terms the division of the early philosophers into schools such as these, but often reject the account of their origins as being simply associated with different government offices. |
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http://www.as.miami.edu/phi/bio/Buddha/classphi.htm
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| | Chad Hansen's Chinese Philosophy Page (Daoist Interpretations) |
| | I add essays and translation here as I finish them for publication and also include links to classes I teach at the University of Hong Kong. | | | I am please to report that Oxford University Press has reissued my book, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, in affordable paperback (at last!). | | | philosopher of language, like his close friend and philosophical interlocutor, |
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http://hkusuc.hku.hk/philodep/ch
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| | Chinese Philosophy: Taoism |
| | That aside, Taoism is, along with Confucianism, the most important strain of Chinese thought through the ages. | | | The Taoist has no concern for affairs of the state, for mundane or quotidian matters of administration, or for elaborate ritual; rather Taoism encourages avoiding public duty in order to search for a vision of the transcendental world of the spirit. | | | It ranges over entirely different concerns, so that it is common for individuals, philosophers, Chinese novels or films, etc., to be both Confucianist and Taoist. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHPHIL/TAOISM.HTM
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| | Su Tzu's Chinese Philosophy Page |
| | Zhong Yong - The Doctrine of the Mean (English) | | | It is my goal in setting up this page to attract more people, who are interested in searching for the answers of their life, not to limit themselves within the scope of traditional Western philosophies, but to open themselves to some alternatives offered by several schools of Chinese philosophy. | | | Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism A center for Taoist studies dedicated to the teaching and practice of Taoism. |
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http://uweb.superlink.net/~fsu
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| | Feng Youlan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There he met, among many philosophers who were to influence his thought and career, John Dewey, the pragmatist, who became his teacher. | | | He went on to teach at a number of Chinese universities (including Guangdong, Yanjing, and Tsinghua (in Beijing). | | | Feng Youlan (Simplified Chinese: 冯友兰; Traditional Chinese: 馮友蘭; pinyin: Féng Yǒulán; Wade-Giles: Feng Yu-lan; also: Fung Yu-Lan; 1895–1990) was a Chinese philosopher who was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fung_Yu-lan
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| | Association of Chinese Philosophers in America |
| | It represents members' interests to the wider philosophic world and encourages their participation in collective professional projects. | | | As an organization whose members are concerned with the problems of philosophy and the humanities, ACPA serves as a forum in which members can share experiences, common concerns and other useful information. | | | The association's long-term objective is to act as a communication bridge between Chinese and non-Chinese philosophers. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/il/acpa
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| | Eastern Philosophy |
| | (This is not under any circumstances to be seen as a complete list but a selection of some key philosophers we consider to be important.) | | | China the Beautiful - Chinese Art and Literature | | | Chinese Philosophy (Link to more documentary material on China) |
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http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/philosopherseast.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Eastern Philosophy: Chinese Philosophy |
| | Articles generally relate the Chinese philosophical tradition to the Western tradition. | | | Chinese Philosophy Page - This site draws together a list of Chinese Philosophy resources available on the Internet. | | | Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy - A publication of the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Eastern_Philosophy/Chinese_Philosophy
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| | Lincoln Douglas |
| | Knowing them makes it far more likelyh that you will win more debates. | | | Original articles from Plato, Chinese philosophers, the Koran, Justice Black, Will Durant, Rawls, Nozick, Bentham, Mill, Rousseau, Kant, Indian philosophy, Ross, Spencer, others. | | | THE CDE LINCOLN DOUGLAS DICTIONARY covers, in an easy to use alphabetical format, all the important words, phrases, and critical philosophies used in Lincoln Douglas debate. |
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http://www.cdedebate.com/lincoln.htm
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