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Dao : A Journal of Comparative Philosophy
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.383
Number of Followers: 11  
 
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ISSN (Print) 1569-7274 - ISSN (Online) 1540-3009
Published by Springer-Verlag Homepage  [2468 journals]
  • Root, Branches, Numbers, Weaving, and Structural Rhetoric in the Huainanzi

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      PubDate: 2023-10-31
       
  • Circling the Giant Tree: A Response to Andrew Meyer and Dennis Schilling

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      Abstract: Abstract The present article discusses remarks and suggestions made by Andrew Meyer and Dennis Schilling on a previous contribution of the author. It assesses the status of the root-branches analogy in the Huainanzi 淮南子, and the compatibility of the said analogy with the composition of the same work as a ring composition. It also discusses the numerology proper to the Huainanzi in view of the principles provided by the Yijing 易經. It compares the structural arrangements of the Huainanzi with the ones found in the various versions of the Daodejing 道德經. It concludes on the relationship that these two works establish between the understanding the Way (dao 道) and knowledge about shapes and numbers.
      PubDate: 2023-10-28
       
  • A Contextualist Reconsideration of the “Happy Fish” Passage in the
           Zhuangzi and Its Implications for Relativism

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      Abstract: Abstract The “happy fish” passage in the Zhuangzi 莊子 is often interpreted as endorsing some form of perspectivism which precludes objective claims of knowledge and displaces the significance of human perspectives. Relativism has gained particular currency in contemporary readings. However, this essay aims to show the limited explanatory power of such relativist positions, with focus on Chad Hansen’s “perspectival relativism” and Lea Cantor’s “species relativism.” I will also offer a new, “transitional contextualist” reading, which intends to demonstrate that Zhuangzi’s utterance is grounded in his epistemic context and that Huizi’s 惠子 disputation arises from his changing of the epistemic context, from one with quotidian “low standards” to one with “high-standards” skeptical demands. I further argue that when “wandering” (you 遊) is understood as a freedom from one’s partial perspective, it becomes clear how Zhuangzi analogizes a parallel with the fish’s “wandering” through a continuity between his “world” and that of the fish.
      PubDate: 2023-10-23
       
  • Bruya, Brian, Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-Causation

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      PubDate: 2023-10-23
       
  • Edit by Number: A Response

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      Abstract: Abstract This paper reflects on two ideas addressed in Benoît Vermander’s essay “Edit by Number.” First, how can we apply “coherence in structure” to the historical development of textual production and edition in ancient China' And second, what concept of number underlies the considerations in the Huáinán Zǐ 淮南子' To answer the first question, this article compares the different compositional patterns of texts that, as with the Lǎo Zǐ 老子and the Yì Jīng 易經, are available to us in different versions. The result of the comparison shows that the differences seem to outweigh the coherent patterns, so we must assume that some texts have undergone very large changes historically. Regarding the concept of number, different views on number are highlighted in texts of the Warring States Period and the Hàn 漢 dynasty, which shows that the Huáinán Zǐ contains a very specific concept of number and its own theory of the One.
      PubDate: 2023-10-23
       
  • Sympathy, Resonance, and the Use of Natural Correspondences in
           Philosophical Argument: A Comparison of Greco-Roman and Early Chinese
           Sources

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      Abstract: Abstract Thinkers from the Chinese and Greco-Roman traditions posit that disparate objects throughout the cosmos have mutual affinities. In the Stoic tradition, such affinities are explained through “sympathy.” In the Chinese tradition, the explanatory principle is often called ganying 感應 (resonance). In addition, both traditions use similar philosophical strategies when discussing these concepts. Thinkers cite natural correspondences, placing them in parallel lists as evidence for philosophical truths. On the surface, the analogous concepts and strategies hint that these thinkers share similar philosophical goals. However, analysis of the role natural correspondences play in argumentation discovers fundamental differences between the two traditions. The focus on particular arguments instead of broader cosmological trends offers a different perspective for comparative research, and the conclusions raise questions concerning how scholarship should analyze philosophical trends in early China.
      PubDate: 2023-10-14
       
  • Looking for Reasons to be Good: Mengzi as a Moral Advisor

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      Abstract: Abstract This essay accounts for Mengzi’s 孟子 failure in persuading King Xuan of Qi (Qi Xuan Wang 齊宣王) to act morally. We argue that the distinction between internal and external reasons in contemporary philosophy helps to highlight the nature of the failure. The problem of nontransmission of the compassionate impulse within a person despite moral persuasion, which Mencians need to address in order to enhance the success of moral conversion, is now explained as a result of misdirecting the advisee to the lofty ideal of sagehood. We conclude by proposing a proleptic understanding of external reasons within a pragmatic model of giving moral advice.
      PubDate: 2023-10-14
       
  • Zhuangzi and Personal Autonomy

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      Abstract: Abstract I apply the Zhuangzi 莊子 to assess the contemporary value of personal autonomy. Focusing on two concepts, wuwei 無為 and you 遊, I clarify the “wandering ideal” in the Zhuangzi to challenge the ideal of autonomy as central to a well-lived life. Drawing on Sneddon’s persuasive recent account of autonomy, the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi, as well as recent secondary scholarship on the text, I show that the wandering ideal suggests a stark move away from the controlled and self-reflective life of the autonomous person. My goal is to draw on the Zhuangzi to contribute to dialogue on the ideal of autonomy, rather than to provide an innovative way of reading the Zhuangzi. I argue that both autonomy and wandering are higher-order ideals that can be applied to individual actions and to a person’s form of life, but at both levels, wandering and personal autonomy are in tension. The conclusion briefly reflects on the significance of the tension.
      PubDate: 2023-10-13
       
  • Chen, Gu Ying 陳鼓應, The Theory of Daoist Philosophy Predominance
           道家哲學主幹說

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      PubDate: 2023-10-12
       
  • Huang, Yushun 黃玉順, Only Tian Is the Greatest: Transcendent Ontology
           of Life Confucianism 唯天為大: 生活儒學的超越本體論

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      PubDate: 2023-09-29
       
  • Dongfang, Shuo 東方朔, Authority and Order: Research on Xunzi’s
           Political Philosophy 權威與秩序: 荀子政治哲學研究

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      PubDate: 2023-09-27
       
  • Tseng, Roy, Confucian Liberalism: Mou Zongsan and Hegelian Liberalism

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      PubDate: 2023-09-23
       
  • Correction to: Confucius and the Hen‑Pheasant: The Enigma at the
           Center of the Analects

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      PubDate: 2023-08-17
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09904-9
       
  • Correction to: Ni, Peimin 倪培民, On the Philosophy of Confucian Gongfu
           儒家功夫哲學論

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      PubDate: 2023-07-31
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09903-w
       
  • Confucius and the Hen-Pheasant: The Enigma at the Center of the Analects

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      Abstract: Abstract The last sentence of Chapter 10 of the Analects describes a brief encounter between Confucius and a hen-pheasant, and it does so in puzzling terms, ridden with lexical difficulties. At the same time, intertextual references insert this fragment into the context of Confucius’ life mission as well as of Chinese mythological narratives. This contribution assesses the fragment’s meaning and significance: Confucius’ reaction to the hen-pheasant unveils his evolving understanding of the Heavenly Mandate bestowed upon him. The fragment thus forcefully concludes the chapter in which it is inserted. Additionally, I put forward a hypothesis: the focus of this narrative, coupled with its positioning at the end of Chapter 10, induce us to postulate that it may have been purposefully located at the very center of the Analects, a proposition that reverberates on the way we look at the composition of the book.
      PubDate: 2023-06-30
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09890-y
       
  • Liu, Zhi 劉志, The Collection of Chinese Handwritten Daoist Scriptures
           中國道教寫本經藏

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      PubDate: 2023-06-27
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09901-y
       
  • Fang, Xudong 方旭東, Neo-Confucianism in East Asia 理學在東亞

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      PubDate: 2023-06-26
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09900-z
       
  • Chai, David, Reading Ji Kang’s Essays: Xuanxue in Early-Medieval
           China

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      PubDate: 2023-06-26
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09899-3
       
  • Bartsch, Shadi, Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese
           Nationalism

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      PubDate: 2023-06-24
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09897-5
       
  • Bell, Daniel A., The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat
           at a Chinese University

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      PubDate: 2023-06-24
      DOI: 10.1007/s11712-023-09898-4
       
 
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