The Confucian ideal of harmony

Philosophy East and West

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 583-603

  Li, Chenyang ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 40849139905     PISSN: 00318221     EISSN: 15291898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pew.2006.0055     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. See Guo Qi, (The formation of the philosophical category he in Chinese history), Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy 16 (Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2000): 451-466
2. Chenyang Li, "Zhongyong as Grand Harmony: An Alternative Reading to Ames and Hall's Focusing the Familiar," Dao: A journal of Comparative Philosophy 3 (2) (2004), 173-188
3. On this subject, see, for example, Shu-hsien Liu and Robert E. Allinson, Harmony and Strife: Contemporary Perspectives, East and West (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1988)
4. See Chung-ying Cheng, New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), p. 187
5. Hegel writes, "Difference as such is already implicitly contradiction; for it is the unity of sides which are, only in so far as they are not one - and it is the separation of sides which are, only as separated in the same relation" (Science of Logic, § 934)
6. Stephen Houlgate, ed., The Hegel Reader (Malden: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1998), p. 235
7. David Hall and Roger Ames, Thinking from the Han (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), p. 180. Obviously, not all Westerners are "Truth-seekers" and not all Chinese are "Way-seekers." But to the extent that these two patterns are the predominant tendencies, respectively, I believe that Hall and Ames are right
8. See Chenyang Li, The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), chap. 2
9. Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, ed. Henry Hardy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), p. 12
10. See also Berlin's The Roots of Romanticism, ed. Henry Hardy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
11. See Bernard Williams, "Liberalism and Loss," in The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, ed. Mark Lilla, Ronald Dworkin, and Robert Silvers (New York: The New York Review of Books, 2001 ), pp. 91-103
12. Jesus said, "No one is worthy of me who cares more for [their] father or mother than for me" (Matthew 10:37)
13. Amy Gutmann, ed., Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 66
14. One of the best examples of harmony between value configurations is that between Confucianism and Daoism. See Li, The Tao Encounters the West, chap. 6
15. Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations," Foreign Affairs 72 (3) (Summer 1993): 22-49. Huntington does not promote "clashes," but he sees them as inevitable