This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concer...Loe edasi...
This book traces the history and development of Taiwans new money god tradition, where, by borrowing a small sum of blessed fortune money and returning it with interest within a year, a temples deity may intervene in the recipients life, bringing th...Loe edasi...
This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th...Loe edasi...
First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colourful religion and way of life. Perhaps for the first time, all aspects of Taoism are brought within the covers of one book....Loe edasi...
Advances in artificial intelligence are enabling the construction of digital ghosts: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data. This book...Loe edasi...
This book establishes Confucian Literature as a multidisciplinary genre. By breaking down the barriers between literature and philosophy, this book opens the field of Chinese literature to new interpretive methods, and brings Confucian values to rea...Loe edasi...
This book calls for a reformation of the image of monotheism in studies of Japanese religions and in the study of religions in general. According to most scholars, Japan and monotheism mix like oil and water. Whatever Japanese religion is, we are to...Loe edasi...
The book emphasises that the modern Japanese and Chinese use of Qimeng () to translate and interpret Enlightenment predominantly reflects the second interpretation of Enlightenment(i.e.Anti-Enlightenment), which betrays the spirit of equality the m...Loe edasi...
This book conducts a comparative study between Confucian political philosophy and contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the work of Chinese contemporary artist Liang Shaoji and emphasises the contribution of multispecies ethnography to art criticism. Over three decades, Liang has worked with domestic silkworms to craft art that embodies the Daois...Loe edasi...
When this classic volume was originally published in 1951, this volume was a new interpretation of the philosophy of one of the most influential Chinese thinkers. Twentieth century understanding of Confucius thought was often based on the interpreta...Loe edasi...
Human beings have always been concerned with fundamental questions about their selves, including the deeply personal nature of human experience. The goal of this volume is to rethink these questions against the backdrop of the Chinese philosophical...Loe edasi...
This book presents an introductory survey of the major themes, thinkers and texts, philosophical genres and profound insights of the Chinese philosophical tradition. Its coverage ranges from the foundational history of Chinese thought in the 6th-5th...Loe edasi...
Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues....Loe edasi...
This is the first book-length study of wartime Confucianism in any language, providing new insights into key developments in Confucian thought and ideology in East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s....Loe edasi...
In the spring of 2017, U.S.-based Confucian philosopher Stephen C. Angle took part in a series of dialogues with Chinese Confucians. The present book offers translations of those dialogues into English, together with epilogues by the two editors ref...Loe edasi...
Joshi shows how the Daoist classics provide insightful prescriptions on how to live a life full of happiness, contentment, and healthy longevity, and provide guidance regarding personal ethics, sustainable economics, and achieving enlightenment. A u...Loe edasi...
This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It will be of interest to researchers in Asian philosophy, religion and culture, moral philosophy or ethics, the study of memory an...Loe edasi...
