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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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Carfax
2022
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Asian philosophy
Jahr: 2022, Band: 32, Heft: 2, Seiten: 215-235 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Mengzi 372 v. Chr.-289 v. Chr.
/ Xunzi ca. 340 v. Chr./298 - 245 v. Chr./230
/ Debatte
/ Holismus
/ Normativität
/ Humanität
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus BM Chinesischer Universismus; Konfuzianismus; Taoismus KBM Asien TB Altertum VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
path-bound normativity
B Historical holism B Mencius-Xunzi dispute B xing/性 B retrospective necessity |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 largely neglected but important aspect of Confucian thought. While in the second direction, whoever is otherwise convinced by the Mencian insight may find its successful reconstruction as a case of historical holism good evidence for the thesis itself, which seems ground-breaking in certain areas of contemporary analytic philosophy. The paper largely focuses on the first direction, with quite detailed exposition of key analytic elements for understanding historical holism. A notion of retrospective necessity stands out in the exposition, supporting the main idea of path-bound normativity which turns out to be, for our present case, a notion of implicit and endogenous normativity. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2021.1977456 |