Ritual and Deference develops Robert Cummings Neville’s thesis that contemporary philosophy has much to gain by shaping itself through important themes of the Chinese philosophical traditions, especially the themes of ritual and deference. Neville here offers a broad and detailed interpretation of the relevance of Confucianism and Daoism to contemporary issues. The discussion includes analyses of classical Confucian and Daoist texts, especially those of Xunzi and Laozi, and of the current scene of English-speaking philosophy advancing Chinese themes. The book also reflects on the nature of comparative philosophy as such, and the role that comparative philosophy has in the ongoing contemporary engagement with globalization, the clash of cultures, and scientific transformations of the worldviews of diverse civilizations. Neville stresses the importance of deferring to the integrity of cultures while still submitting them to normative analysis and criticism.
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Preface
1. A Confucian Program
Metaphysics
Philosophical Cosmology
Human Nature
Social Theory
2. The Significance of Confucian Values
Values for the Good Life: Conventional, Yet Normative
A Confucian Solution: Ritual
High Civilizations: Competing Values and Global Rituals
A Homily on Humaneness
3. Ritual in Xunzi
Initial Considerations of Ritual in Xunzi
Ritual and Semiotics
Ritual and Desire
Ritual, Integration, and Religion
4. Daoist Relativism, Ethical Choice, and Normative Measure
A Metaphysical Daoism
Normative Measure
Daoist Ethics
Daoism and Confucianism Compared
5. Chinese Influences in English-Speaking Philosophy
Scholarly Influences
Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall
Tu Weiming and Cheng Chungying
Wu Kuangming
6. Methodology, Practices, and Disciplines in Chinese and Western Philosophy
The Problem
Methodology as a Concern
Philosophical Practices
Philosophical Discipline
7. Metaphysics for Contemporary Chinese Philosophy
The Need for Metaphysics
Themes of Chinese Philosophy
Metaphysical Directions
8. The Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual and Humanity
The Unconscious as a Problem for Confucian Virtue
Ritual and Humaneness
Deceptions of the Heart: Freud
Deceptions of the Heart: Marx
9. The Contemporary Mutual Development of Confucianism and Christianity
From Reformation of the Inner Heart to Loving the World
The Location of Ethical Analysis and Rectifying Power
Peace, Action, and Retreat
10. The Personal and the Impersonal in Conceptions of Divinity
Popular versus Sophisticated Religion Hypothesis
Development Hypothesis: Pre-Axial Age and Axial Age
Semiotic Hypothesis
Ontological-Anthropological Continuum Hypothesis
11. On Comparison
Models of Comparative Theology
Objectivist Comparison
Normative Comparison
Beyond Comparative to Integrative Philosophy
12. Contributions of Chinese Philosophy: A Summary Discussion
The Happy Portability of Chinese Philosophy
Ritual, Again
Ethics, Again
Orientation and the Self
Notes
Index
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Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University and the author and editor of many books, including
Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World, also published by SUNY Press.
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