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Human Beings or Human Becomings?
(February 2021)
A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person
Peter D. Hershock - Editor
Roger T. Ames - Editor
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Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.
Great transformations are reshaping human life, social institutions, and the world around us, raising profound questions about our fundamental values. We now have the knowledge and the technical experti...(Read More) |
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Human Becomings
(December 2020)
Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics
Roger T. Ames - Author
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Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.
In Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that is presupposed within the interpretive context of classical Chinese philosophy. By beginning with...(Read More) |
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Confucian Role Ethics
(November 2020)
A Vocabulary
Roger T. Ames - Author
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Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.
In this landmark book, Roger T. Ames examines how the classics of the Confucian canon portray the authentic, ethical human being. He argues that many distinguished commentators on Confucian ethics have explained the fundamental ideas and terms of this...(Read More) |
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Having a Word with Angus Graham
(March 2018)
At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality
Carine Defoort - Editor
Roger T. Ames - Editor
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Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.
This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919–1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarshi...(Read More) |
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Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art
(September 2011)
Cultural and Philosophical Reflections
Hsingyuan Tsao - Editor
Roger T. Ames - Editor
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Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.
How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out against government control. Traditionally, Chinese artistic expression has been related to the structure and fun...(Read More) |
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Confucian Cultures of Authority
(July 2006)
Peter D. Hershock - Editor
Roger T. Ames - Editor
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Explores a wide range of Confucian-based cultures of authority in China.
This volume examines the values that have historically guided the negotiation of identity, both practical and ideal, in Chinese Confucian culture, considers how these values play into the conception and exercise of authority, and assesses their contemporary relevance in a rapidly globalizing world. Included are essays that explore the rule of ...(Read More) |
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John Dewey, Confucius, and Global Philosophy
(August 2004)
Joseph Grange - Author
Roger T. Ames - Foreword by
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Bringing together the philosophies of John Dewey and Confucius, this work illustrates a means for cultural interaction and provides a model of global philosophy.
Joseph Grange's beautifully written book provides a unique synthesis of two major figures of world philosophy, John Dewey and Confucius, and points the way to a global philosophy based on American and Confucian values. Grange concentrates on the major themes ...(Read More) |
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Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare
(March 2003)
A Translation of the Classic Chinese Work of Philosophy and Strategy
D. C. Lau - Translated with introduction and commentary
Roger T. Ames - Translated with introduction and commentary
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A classic of both military strategy and Eastern philosophy from the fourth century B.C.E.
"For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death." — Sun Bin
Sun Bin's Art of Warfare is an essential text of Chinese military philosophy and of strategy in general. This book, lost for over two thousand years and rediscovered only in...(Read More) |
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Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi
(September 1998)
Roger T. Ames - Editor
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A diverse collection of interpretive essays on the third-century B.C.E. Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi, which continues the long commentarial tradition on this work and underscores its relevance to our own time and place.
Chinese philosophy specialists examine the Zhuangzi, a third century B.C.E. Daoist classic, in this collection of interpretive essays. The Zhuangzi is a celebration of human creativity--its languag...(Read More) |
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Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice
(May 1998)
Roger T. Ames - Editor
Thomas P. Kasulis - With
Wimal Dissanayake - With
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Explores, from a cross-cultural viewpoint and in terms of symbolic expression, the self's problematic relationship to language and art and to the culture embedding the language and art.
"The topic is significant and the essays provide even greater insights when combined with their first two volumes. In particular, the work is so clear that I would have no hesitation using this book as an undergraduate text in a variety o...(Read More) |
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