Chinese Philosophy as World Philosophy

• Sixteen collected essays examine Chinese Philosophy around 4 major topics
• Furthers and deepens fundamental inquiries, including: What is philosophy? Is there more than one origin of philosophy? Have we embraced other traditions as well as integrated others into our own? How do we view Chinese philosophy in the multi-origins of the world philosophy and vice versa?
• The second volume of the festschrift for celebrating the Journal of Chinese Philosophy’s 40th anniversary

Special Theme

Dedication to Joseph Grange (1940–2014): An American Pragmatist with Soul
CHUNG-YING CHENG 1

Preface: Readiness and Creativity—China, West, Above and Beyond
LINYU GU 3

Introduction: Teachers, Friends, and Truth
TIMOTHY CONNOLLY 8

Opening Out the Boundaries: Homage to the Journal of Chinese Philosophy
EDWARD S. CASEY 12

The Riddle of Creativity: Philosophy’s View
GÜNTER ABEL 17

Notes on the Framework for Comparing Science and Philosophy Across Civilizations
G. E. R. LLOYD 39

God’s Knowledge and Ours: Kant and Mou Zongsan on Intellectual Intuition
NICHOLAS BUNNIN 47

Chinese Philosophy in Systematic Metaphysics
ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE 59

Confucian Ethics in Modernity: Ontologically Rooted, Internationally Resposive, and Integratively Systematic
CHUNG-YING CHENG 76


On Interphilosophical Sino-Western Dialogue in the Contemporary World
MARIÁN GÁLIK 99


Chinese Philosophy in Post-Soviet Russia
ALEXANDER LOMANOV 115

Illuminations of “The Quotidian” in Cavell and the Sino-Japanese Tradition
STEVE ODIN 135

Fathoming The Changes: The Evolution of Some Technical Terms and Interpretive Strategies in Yijing Exegesis
RICHARD J. SMITH 146


From Interpretation to Construction: Guo Xiang’s Ontological Individualism
VINCENT SHEN 171


The Goose Lake Monastery Debate (1175)
JULIA CHING 189

The Significance of Xiong Shili’s Interpretation of Dignâga’s lambana-Parîkṣâ (Investigation of the Object)
JOHN MAKEHAM 205


A Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society?
JÜRGEN HABERMAS 226

A Reinterpretation and Reconstruction of Confucian Philosophy
SHU-HSIEN LIU 239

Healing the Planet
JOSEPH GRANGE 251


News and Notes


The 18th International Conference for Chinese Philosophy: “Chinese Philosophy and the Way of Living”
TIM CONNOLLY 272


International Symposium Series on Comparative Philosophy: “Morality and Religiousness: Chinese and Western”
LINYU GU 273


Oxford Forum: “Moral Philosophy and Neo-Confucianism: The Future”
LINYU GU 274


International Workshop “Comparative Philosophy: Approaches and Methodologies”
XINZHONG YAO 275

An International Conference on “Hermeneutics East and West” The Pennsylvania State University, May 16–17, 2014
ON-CHO NG 276

Professor Dr. Chung-ying Cheng, internationally known philosopher of East-West integration and a leading representative of Neo-Confucian philosophy in contemporary world, was born in 1935 in China, received his college education at National Taiwan University in Taipei with major in philosophy and literature. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from University of Washington (1959), received Ph.D. in Philosophy (with minor in mathematics) from Harvard University (1964) and started teaching in 1964. He became a tenured full Professor of Philosophy by 1972 at University of Hawaii at Manoa.