A Post-modern Image Of Chinese Philosophy-an Account Based On The Confucian Implications Of "structure" And "deconstruction"

Philosophy and Culture 34 (2):39-58 (2007)
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This paper attempts a new interpretation of Confucianism Confucianism and then talk about the past and today's discussion of post-modern scene, and further inferences in Chinese philosophy with the conditions of post-modern discourse. This paper chose Confucianism as a starting point for research, from the "structure" and "deconstruction" two to the police know its significance for the evolution. That is, from the perspective of post-modern interpretation of Confucianism change and development, discusses the breakdown of the content contained on the Confucian rectification of names , the ideological differences between Mencius and Xunzi and the meaning of dialectical development of creative Han, and the ideal structure of Confucianism invention and discovery, and finally from the "Confucian ideal structure" of the understanding, and then traced with the "ideal structure" is varies with the real name of the "Road" to complete the outline of Chinese philosophy in the post-modern image This paper intends to adopt the new implications of Confucianism to explore how post-modern philosophical discussion on Confucianism is made in the past and today. It is further argued that Chinese philosophy is capable of conducting post-modern philosophical exposition. This paper starts from the studies on Confucianism, to investigate the transition in meaning based on two dimensions: "structure" and "deconstruction". In other words, this paper tries to look into the changes and developments of Confucianism from post-modern perspectives. Detail discussion and concepts include "the rectification of names" by Confucius, the differences between the thoughts of Mencius and Hsün Tzu, and the creative implications derived from their argumentation and development. The inventions and discoveries of Confucian ideal type are also stated. Finally, from the understanding of the "Confucian ideal type", that the "ideal type" in post-modernism is synonymous with the Chinese concept "Tao" . By doing so, the paper tries to illustrate the post-modern image of Chinese philosophy

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