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Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy

A Unifying Pluralist Account
  • ISBN-13: 9781498560412
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Bo Mou
  • Price: AUD $302.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2019
  • Format: Hardback 388 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]
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This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth, jointly-rooted perspectivism ('JRP' for short). This explanation unifies various representative while philosophically interesting truth-concern approaches in early Chinese philosophy on the basis of people's pre-theoretic "way-things-are-capturing" understanding of truth. It explains how JRP provides effective interpretative resources to identify and explain one unifying line that runs through those distinct truth-concern approaches and how they can thus talk with and complement each other and contribute to the contemporary study of the issue of truth. In so doing, the book also engages with some distinct treatments in the modern study of Chinese philosophy. Through testing its explanatory power in effectively interpreting those representative truth-concern approaches in the Yi-Jing philosophy, Gongsun Long's philosophy, Later Mohist philosophy, classical Confucianism and classical Daoism, JRP is also further justified and strengthened. Mou defends JRP as an original unifying pluralist account in the context of cross-tradition philosophical engagement, which can also effectively engage with other accounts of truth (including other types of pluralist accounts) in contemporary philosophy. The purpose of this book is dual: (1) it is to enhance our understanding and treatment of the truth concern as one strategic foundation of various movements of thought in classical Chinese philosophy that are intended to capture "how things are"; (2) on the other hand, it is to explore how the relevant resources in Chinese philosophy can contribute to the contemporary exploration of the philosophical issue of truth in philosophically interesting and engaging way.
Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Jointly-Rooted Perspectivism: Normative Basis, Background, Methodology and Structure Chapter 2: Truth-Concern Approach in Yi-Jing Philosophy Chapter 3: Truth-Concern Approach in Gongsun Long's Philosophy Chapter 4: Truth-Concern Approach in Later Mohism Chapter 5: Truth-Concern Approaches in Classical Confucianism Chapter 6: Truth-Concern Approaches in Classical Daoism Chapter 7: Jointly-Rooted Perspectivism as a Unifying Pluralist Account Appendixes References Index About the Author
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