Thinking Through Confucian Modernity
A Study of Mou Zongsan's Moral Metaphysics
Biographical note
Sébastien Billioud, Ph.D. in Chinese studies (University Paris Diderot, 2004), is Associate Professor of Chinese Civilization at University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité. His research focuses on Confucianism in contemporary China with a cross-disciplinary approach in intellectual history and anthropology.
Readership
Students of and specialists in Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, Confucianism, comparative philosophy, and all those interested in the reception to Western philosophy in China.
Reviews
"Sébastien Billioud...has authored a superb study of the critical concept of moral metaphysics in Mou's magesterial intercultural revival of Confucian philosophy...[Thinking Through Confucian Modernity is] an accomplished philosophical examination of the mature work of a great modern Confucian philosopher."
John Berthrong, Boston University School of Theology, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 71, No. 4 (November 2012)
John Berthrong, Boston University School of Theology, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 71, No. 4 (November 2012)
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Setting the Ground for a True Autonomy of the Moral Subject
Chapter 2. Appropriating a Pivotal Concept: Intellectual Intuition
Chapter 3. Intellectual Intuition and Thing-in-Itself: Preserving the Possibility of a “Transcendent Metaphysics”
Chapter 4. Rethinking Fundamental Ontology
Chapter 5. Moral Emotions and “Inter-Affectation”
Chapter 6. Self-Cultivation
Epilogue
Chapter 1. Setting the Ground for a True Autonomy of the Moral Subject
Chapter 2. Appropriating a Pivotal Concept: Intellectual Intuition
Chapter 3. Intellectual Intuition and Thing-in-Itself: Preserving the Possibility of a “Transcendent Metaphysics”
Chapter 4. Rethinking Fundamental Ontology
Chapter 5. Moral Emotions and “Inter-Affectation”
Chapter 6. Self-Cultivation
Epilogue
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