Two new articles about the Peng Bird in as many days! Here’s one about a Zhuangzi-inspired art installation at the 56th Venice Biennale. More information on the installation, along with some pictures, here.
Author Archives: Tim Connolly
China’s Apolitical Political School of Thought
A new article by Bryan W. Van Norden at The National Interest.
Philosophy, Culture, and Public Life
A reflection by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (UC-Santa Cruz).
Confucian values and the rise of Asia
An essay by Robert D. Kaplan in the Wall Street Journal.
New IEP entries on Chinese Philosophy
An overview of topics in Chinese philosophy, by Ronnie Littlejohn; and an article on gender in Chinese philosophy, by Lijuan Shen and Paul D’Ambrosio. Looking forward to reading these in their entirety!
Know the Analects?
Get a free tour of Qufu!
Explaining Daoism with help from RZA
Here.
Interpreting an Alien Philosophy: What Works for Me
[Dear readers: I am happy to present the following invited guest post from Dr. Elisa Freschi of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Freschi (BA +MA in Indology and Tibetology, BA in Philosophy, PhD in South Asian Studies) has worked on topics of Classical Indian Philosophy and more in general on comparative philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language and on the re-use of texts in Indian philosophy (about which she has just finished editing a volume). She is a convinced upholder of reading Sanskrit philosophical texts within their history and understanding them through a philosophical approach. She has worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since September 1, 2012, with a Lise Meitner project on Epistemology of Sacred Texts in Vedāntadeśika’s Seśvaramīmāṃsā. For more information about her work see here.]
No matter whether one focuses on Classical Chinese philosophy (as probably most readers of this blog) or on Classical Indian philosophy (like myself), one works on something which is different than oneself. I will contend that this feeling is useful also if one focuses on contemporary Chinese, or Indian (or Tibetan and so on) philosophy, or on Classical, Medieval, Modern Western philosophy, since it alerts one to a key factor, namely the difference between oneself and one’s object of study.
Why do many Americans still say “Confucius say”?
Confucius valued careful and serious speech. One passage in the Analects says that a person can be judged as wise or unwise on the basis of a single sentence. So how is it possible that for many Americans, the first thing they think of when they hear the name of the Chinese teacher is “Confucius say,” followed by a silly one-liner?
New SEP article on Epistemology in Chinese Philosophy
By Jana Rošker, found here.
