
This book is intended to reconsider the ethos |
| p> Wang Keping (Keping Wang, b. 1955) received his M.A. from the University of Canberra and his Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University. He is a research fellow of the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and professor at the Beijing International Studies University. He is a holder of the British Academy K. C. Wong Fellowship (2000), visiting fellow of St. Anne' s College, University of Oxford, and an honorary member of Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture, University of Athens. He is a board member of International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD), and an Executive Committee member of Chinese Society for Aesthetics (CSA). His major publications include Plato's Poetics in the Republic; Chinese Philosophy on Life; Towards a Transcultural Aesthetics; The Classic of the Dao: A New Investigation; Essays on Sino-Occidental Aesthetic Cultures; Aesthetic Traveling; Sightseeing as an Aesthetic Activity; Experiencing English through Poetry. |
| preface section one cultural ideals a rediscovery of heaven-human oneness the three-fold significance tiandi and its naturalistic aspects tiandao and its moralistic expectations tianxia and its cosmopolitan ideal the two-dimensional orientation ziran renhua, or the humanization of nature ren ziranhua, or the naturalization of humanity a pragmatic alternative a multicultural strategy:harmonization without being patternized the meeting of east and west as a good-natured hypothesis harmony and uniformity in perspective the need of a new philosophos poiesis happiness from philosophical perspectives good fortune and misfortune happiness as contentment the great and the small perfect happiness three types of joy the delighted pursuit of love paradise and sudden enlightenment rule by virtue in chinese society today the interaction between the two paradigms the traditional sense of rule by virtue rule by virtue and problems with moral education turn from guest into host transplanting an orange tree in less favorable soil moral education hooked in the air a new cultural ideal and pursuit the cultural ideal and the pagoda allegory the transcultural pursuit and the transformed overman a second reflection and a three-fold process strategy section two thinking strategies the philosophized dao in multi-dimensions the dao of the universe the dao of dialectics the dao of human life the dao of heaven and man the dao of personal cultivation the dao of governance the dao of war the dao of peace the poetic wisdom on human existence frame of reference: the dao of man, heaven and the sage pursuit of sageliness: practical and sagely wisdom path to freedom: attitudes toward life and death a symbolic way of thinking through fables the peng and happy excursion to the infinite the butterfly and self-emancipation section three aesthetic pursuits appreciating nature in view of practical aesthetics three levels of aesthetic experience aesthetic effects of heaven-and-human oneness interactions between western and chinese aesthetics fragmentary elaboration of western aesthetics systematic construction of aesthetics as a discipline theoretical incorporation through east-west communication cross-disciplinary and comprehensive practice of art education transcultural pondering in view of cultural origins appendix key references index |
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