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Dewey and Confucianism on Aesthetic Ethics or Ethical Aesthetics
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Liu, Yuedi |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | As a practitioner of “Constructive-Engagement Methodological Strategy” in comparative philosophy, I will place the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Pragmatism and Chinese Confucianism within the same philosophical framework so as to work out the distinct styles underlying their “common concerns”. My hope is that this undertaking can lead to a constructive exchange between these influential philosophical traditions: between Wittgenstein’s “Ethics and Aesthetics are One” and Confucianism’s “Perfectly Good and Perfectly Beautiful”, between Dewey’s aesthetics on the emotional in “an experience” and the Confucian’s the unity of daily rituals and ordinary emotions constitutes. Based on the discussion above, it can be argued that Wittgenstein, Dewey and Chinese early Confucianism all move towards a living aesthetic ethics or ethical aesthetics, or in other words, all of them are in essence an ethical-aesthetic art of living, which is quite close to my proposal of “Living Aesthetics”. It is exactly in the framework of living aesthetics that we try to work on a sort of aesthetic ethics or ethical aesthetics that returns us to the life-world. IT HAS BEEN noted that comparative study of Chinese and Western philosophy has gone beyond traditional parallelism towards a Constructive-Engagement Methodological Strategy(Mou, 2001, 337-364). The fundamental agenda of this new movement is “to inquire into how, via reflective criticism and self-criticism, distinct modes of thinking, methodological approaches, visions, insights, substantial points of view, or conceptual and explanatory resources from different philosophical traditions and/or from various styles/orientations of doing philosophy (including those from the complex array of distinct styles/orientations of doing philosophy within the same tradition), can learn from each other and jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise and/or a series of common concerns and issues of philosophical significance. In this way, the issues and concerns under its reflective examination are eventually general and cross-tradition ones instead of idiosyncratically holding for Chinese philosophy alone” (Mou, 2008). As a practitioner of this approach, I will place the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Pragmaticism and Chinese Confucianism within the same philosophical frame so as to work out the distinct styles underlying their “common concerns”. My hope is that this undertaking can lead to a constructive exchange between these influential philosophical traditions. Dr. YUEDI LIU, Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Specialties: Comparative philosophy, Chinese philosophy and aesthetics. E-mail: liuyuediliuyuedi@yahoo.com.cn. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cpp.edu/~jet/Documents/JET/Jet4/Liu61-74.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
