Confucian onto-hermeneutics: Morality and ontology

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-68

  Cheng, Chung Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 38149110222     PISSN: 03018121     EISSN: 15406253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0301-8121.00003     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. See the Analects 7:3
2. See the Analects 14:42
3. See the Analects 3:3
4. In his answer to Zigong, Confucius says that he is able to interrelate experiences. See the Analects 15:3; he also speaks to Zengshen about his way being using oneness lor interrelating
5. It is W. V. O. Quine who has explored and developed the notion of "underdetermination" and "indeterminacy" of ontology by a given scientific theory. See his book Pursuit of Truth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 96-102
6. See my article "On Comprehensive Observation (Guan) as Ontohermeneutics in the Zhou Yi," in Guoji Yixue yanjiu, no. 1, edited by Zhu Bo Kun (Beijing: Huaxia, 1995), pp. 156-203
7. See the Mencius 6A:7
8. See the Mencius 7A:13
9. See the Mencius 2A:2
10. See the Analects 17:2
11. See the Analects 6:19
12. It is to be noted that Charles Taylor's study of the notion of self may also point to this important dimension of the self. See his book, Resources of the Self (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), Part 2
13. See his Sishu daquan (Complete Commentaries on the Four Books), section on Mencius
14. See the Mencius 4A:13 for this and the subsequent quotation
15. See the Yijing. Xici, section 1
16. See my article, "Trinity of Heaven, Man and Earth in the Confucian Personhood" in Confucianism and Ecology, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)
17. See my book On Spirits of Chinese and Western Philosophies (Shanghai: Dongfang, 1996)