PEW publishes a book symposium on Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China

Philosophy East & West (73.2) just published a book symposium on my book, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China (OUP 2021). It features contributions by six critics, including Loy Hui-chieh (on Introduction, Conclusion, and the Mohists), Hagop Sarkissian (on Confucius), Sungmoon Kim (on Mencius and Xunzi), Yuan Ai (on Laozi), Paul J. D’Ambrosio (on Zhuangzi), and Yuri Pines (on fajia/Legalists), with my response. The symposium covers a broad set of topics, ranging from the relevance of history and culture to philosophy, historical vs. philosophical reasonings, virtue politics, alternative interpretative paradigms, contestations of key terms and passages, contemporary global relevance of moral norms in classical Chinese texts, other early texts that could have been included in the book, among many others.

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51059

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About Tao Jiang

Tao JIANG is Professor of Religion and Philosophy with joint appointment in Religion and Philosophy departments at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, US. He specializes in pre-Qin classical Chinese philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of “Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China” (Oxford, 2021), “Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind” (Hawai'i, 2006), and the co-editor of “The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China” (Routledge, 2013). He is director of Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies. He co-chairs the Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP) and the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia University.

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