John Dewey and Confucius: Ecological philosophers

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 419-431

  Grange, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

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EID: 61049225936     PISSN: 03018121     EISSN: 15406253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1540-6253.00129     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. John Dewey, Experience and Nature, 2nd Edition (Chicago: Open Court, 1929), p. xiii
2. See Steven Rockefeller, John Dewey, Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). Rockefeller's work is the best source for tying together the biographical moments that give rise to important aspects of Dewey's philosophy
3. John Dewey, "The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy," in The Essential Dewey (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), Vol. I, p. 49. Henceforth cited as ED
4. See Hall and Ames, Thinking Through Confucius (Albany: SUNY Press, 1987), passim for a thorough presentation of this important quality of Chinese thought
5. The same authors have provided the first extensive comparison of Dewey and Confucius in The Democracy of the Dead (Chicago: Open Court, 1999)
6. Their view focuses on the sociopolitical ramifications of the consonances between the two philosophers. My analysis deals with the underlying metaphysical vision that binds both philosophers together. Also indispensable for my understanding is Chung-ying Cheng, New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Thinking (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991)
7. Finally, there is the fascinating new study by Robert Neville, Boston Confucianism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000). Confucius has landed in New England!
8. See my Nature: An Environmental Cosmology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997)
9. and The City: An Urban Cosmology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997) for a normative application of this understanding of human behavior as it affects natural and urban regions
10. Analects, p. 48