Ritual and deference : extending Chinese philosophy in a comparative context / Robert Cummings Neville.
- Neville, Robert C
- Date:
- [2008], ©2008
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Publication/Creation
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2008], ©2008.
Physical description
xvi, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents
A Confucian program -- The significance of Confucian values -- Ritual in Xunzi -- Daoist relativism, ethical choice, and normative measure -- Chinese influences in English-speaking philosophy -- Methodology, practices, and disciplines in Chinese and Western philosophy -- Metaphysics for contemporary Chinese philosophy -- The conscious and unconscious placing of ritual and humanity -- The contemporary mutual development of Confucianism and Christianity -- The personal and the impersonal in conceptions of divinity -- On comparison -- Contributions of Chinese philosophy: a summary discussion.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-185) and index.
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