Path-bound normativity and a Confucian case of historical holism
I bring a new thesis of historical holism to bear on the well-known Mencius-Xunzi dispute about xing/性. The significance of doing so seems bi-directional: in the first direction, i.e. applying the thesis to the dispute, my reconstruction of both Mencius’s and Xunzi’s views aims at revealing a largel...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Carfax
2022
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Asian philosophy
Année: 2022, Volume: 32, Numéro: 2, Pages: 215-235 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Mengzi 372 avant J.-C.-289 avant J.-C.
/ Xunzi ca. 340 avant J.-C./298 - 245 avant J.-C./230
/ Débat
/ Holisme
/ Normativité
/ Humanité
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AB Philosophie de la religion BM Religions chinoises KBM Asie TB Antiquité VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
path-bound normativity
B Historical holism B Mencius-Xunzi dispute B xing / 性 B retrospective necessity |
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| Résumé: | I bring a new thesis of historical holism to bear on the well-known Mencius-Xunzi dispute about xing/性. The significance of doing so seems bi-directional: in the first direction, i.e. applying the thesis to the dispute, my reconstruction of both Mencius’s and Xunzi’s views aims at revealing a largely neglected but important aspect of Confucian thought. While in the second direction, whoever is otherwise convinced by the Mencian insight may find its successful reconstruction as a case of historical holism good evidence for the thesis itself, which seems ground-breaking in certain areas of contemporary analytic philosophy. The paper largely focuses on the first direction, with quite detailed exposition of key analytic elements for understanding historical holism. A notion of retrospective necessity stands out in the exposition, supporting the main idea of path-bound normativity which turns out to be, for our present case, a notion of implicit and endogenous normativity. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2021.1977456 |