One Corner of the Square: Essays on the Philosophy of Roger T. Ames. Edited by Ian M. Sullivan and Joshua Mason. University of Hawaii Press, 2021.

 

This volume contains contributions from 33 scholars who studied with Roger Ames. Their chapters reflect on, analyze, and sometimes critique Ames’s work, building on his legacy of comparative and Chinese philosophy and taking themes from his career in novel directions. 

 

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Foreword by Peter D. Hershock

 

Introduction

Joshua Mason and Ian M. Sullivan

 

Part I: Comparative Methodologies

1. Sameness, Difference, and the Post-Comparative Turn

Jim Behuniak

2. Mining the Emotions, Deepening Ars Contextualis: A Personal Reflection on the Power of Sensitive Reading

Kirill O. Thompson

3. Confucianism as a Tradition of Reconstruction: Returning to the “Way of Heaven”?

Kurtis Hagen

4. The Development of the Amesian Methodology for Comparative Philosophy

Haiming Wen and Joshua Mason

 

Part II: Issues in Translation

5. Philosophical Ames: On Teaching Chinese Thought as Philosophy

Thorian R. Harris

6. To Render Ren: Saving Authoritativeness

Brian Bruya

7. Philosophy as Hermeneutics: Reflections on Roger Ames, Translation, and Comparative Methodology

Steve Coutinho

8. The Attitude of the Junzi toward Wealth, Social Eminence, Poverty, and Humbleness in Light of Analects 4.5

Attilio Andreini

 

Part III: Process Cosmology

9. Reflections on David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames’s Understanding of Classical Confucian Cosmology

Jung-Yeup Kim

10. Locating the “Numinous” in a Human-Centered Religiousness

Peter Wong Yih Jiun

11. On the Demystification of the Numinous and Mystical in Classical Ruism: Contemporary Musings on the Zhongyong

Lauren F. Pfister

12. Many Confucianisms: From Roger Ames to Jiang Qing on the Interpretive Possibilities of Ruist Traditions

Sarah A. Mattice

13. Seeing Through the Aesthetic Worldview

Andrew Lambert

 

Part IV: Epistemological Considerations

14. How Do Teachers “Realize” Their Students? Reflections on Zhi in the Analects

Carine Defoort

15. Strategic Imagination in Chinese Philosophy

Daniel Coyle

16. Extending Ars Contextualis to Zhu Xi: Using Gewu as an Example

Eiho Baba

17. Truth Bound and Unbound: A Deeper Look at the Western and Chinese Paradigms

Marty H. Heitz

18. Exploring an Alternative Pre-Qin Logic

Jinmei Yuan

 

Part V: Confucian Role Ethics

19. Role Modeling in Confucian Role Ethics: Appreciating an Amesian Education

Joseph E. Harroff

20. Who’s Afraid of Village Worthies?

Geir Sigurðsson

21. Doubts and Anxiety on a Way without Crossroads

Vytis Silius

22. Applying Amesian Ethics

Joshua Mason

 

Part VI: Classical Daoism

23. Making Way for Nothing

Meilin Chinn

24. Field, Focus, and Focused Field: A Classical Daoist Worldview

James D. Sellmann

25. The Temporality of Dao: Permanence and Transience

Jing Liu

26. Whence Do You Know the Fish Are Happy? Knowing Well and Living Well

Kuan-Hung Chen

 

Part VII: Critical Social and Political Directions

27. Confucianism as Transformative Practice: Ethical Impact and Political Pitfalls

Sor-hoon Tan

28. The Promise and Problem of Creativity and Li

Amy Olberding

29. Men Tell Me Paternalism Is Good

Sydney Morrow

30. Confucianism Reimagined: A Feminist Project

Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee

 

Afterword: The Amesian Square in the Perfect Storm

Martin Schönfeld