Philosophical Approaches to Politics and Ethics

Reflecting on Chinese and Western Traditions

Series: 

Author:
Guorong Yang
Editors / Translators:
Paul J. D'Ambrosio
and
Sharon Y. Small
Translators:
Kathryn Henderson
,
Stefano Gandolfo
, and
Lidia Tammaro
In Philosophical Approaches to Politics and Ethics, Yang Guorong investigates influential political and ethical topics in Chinese and Western philosophies. This is the first and only English-language translation of the text, originally authored by one of the most influential living philosophers in China.

Yang looks general issues such as moral behaviour, humanism, wisdom, or “how to do philosophy,” as well as at broad topics from various discourses, such as the relationship between rights and duties, or humaneness and propriety, and more concentrated discussions, such as the Gettier Problem or Zhang Zai’s thought. Throughout, Yang draws on resources from Chinese and Western traditions to develop post-comparative philosophical reflections on these issues—in this way Yang engages in what he calls “world philosophy.”
Copyright Year:
2025
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Yang Guorong, Ph.D. (1988), East China Normal University, is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at that university. He has published nearly twenty monographs and dozens of articles in Chinese, many of which are being translated into English.
Paul J. D’Ambrosio, Ph.D. (2013) is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at East China Normal University. He has published over one hundred articles, reviews, and chapters, and translated over a dozen books. His most recent monograph is You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity (2021), with Hans-Georg Moeller.
Sharon Y. Small obtained her Ph.D from the department of Philosophy at Peking University (2018). Her publications mainly focus on the metaphysical thought, philosophy of government, and ethics in pre-Qin Daoist thought through excavated manuscripts ranging from the Laozi to Huang-Lao. She has also translated several articles and books authored by leading scholars in China.
Translator’s Introduction

Introduction
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1 An Outline of Political Philosophy
 1 What Is Politics?
 2 The Necessity of Politics
 3 Political Legitimacy
 4 The Legality of Politics
 5 Political Efficacy
 6 Morality and Politics

2 Your Rights, My Duties: Perspectives on the Transformations and Intersections of Rights and Duties
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3 On Moral Behavior
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4 Approaches to Humanistic Research
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5 The Epistemological Orientation of Chinese Culture
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6 The Gettier Problem in Epistemology
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7 Wisdom, Opinions, and the Individualization of Philosophy: Meta-Philosophical Issues
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8 How to Do Philosophy
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  2.1 The Human and Holistic Perspectives
  2.2 Theoretical Thinking and Conceptual Activity
  2.3 Return to Pure Existence
  2.4 History and Thought
  2.5 Interactions between Theory and Experience, Wisdom and Knowledge

9 A Theory of Wisdom, from the Perspective of World Philosophy
 1 Context and Origins
 2 Back to Wisdom: against the Abstraction of Wisdom
 3 Epistemology in a Broad Sense: Connecting the Threads of Epistemology, Ontology and Axiology
 4 How to Achieve the Transformation of Knowledge into Wisdom
 5 The Cultivation of Personality and the Creation of Values and Principles
 6 Language, Consciousness, and Being

10 The Implications of a Dialogue between Philosophical Systems
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11 Confucianism: Original Form, Historical Branches, and Future Directions
An Examination of “Humaneness” and “Propriety”
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12 The Historical Implications of Confucian Values
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13 The Perspective of the Human Way in the Debate between Heaven and Humans
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14 Multiple Dimensions of Ideals throughout History
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15 The Philosophical Significance of the Guan School: a Study Based on Zhang Zai’s Thought
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Bibliography
Index
This book will appeal to philosophy professors, graduate students, and libraries and institutions interested in Chinese, Western, and comparative philosophy.
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