Path-bound normativity and a Confucian case of historical holism
I bring a new thesis of historical holism to bear on the well-known Mencius-Xunzi dispute about xing/性. The significance of doing so seems bi-directional: in the first direction, i.e. applying the thesis to the dispute, my reconstruction of both Mencius’s and Xunzi’s views aims at revealing a largel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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Asian philosophy
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-235 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mengzi 372 BC-289 BC
/ Xunzi ca. 340 BC/298 - 245 BC/230
/ Debate
/ Holism
/ Normativity
/ Humanity
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia TB Antiquity VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
path-bound normativity
B Historical holism B Mencius-Xunzi dispute B xing / 性 B retrospective necessity |
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