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- Considers one of the most fundamental Chinese cultural ideals, harmony (hé/?)
- Delineates the rationale of the Chinese philosophy of harmony and its implications for and impacts on modern social practices worldwide
- Addresses the inevitable tension between the theory and practice of Harmony
Part of the book series: Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture (KCCTC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This Key Concepts pivot considers the fundamental Chinese cultural ideal of harmony (hé/和). Historically originating from Confucianism, the concept of harmony sits at the heart of Chinese traditional culture, which is characteristically morality-based and harmony-conscious due to the central role of pragmatic reason and wisdom nurtured through Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism and other schools of thought. This pivot delineates the rationale of the Chinese philosophy of harmony and its implications for modern social practices worldwide. It notably reexamines the relevance of hé beyond the realm of philosophy, and how this concept can impact on modern day human relations, amongst individuals and families as well as on a wider societal scale. It explores how hé can affect perspectives on political interaction, international relations and human conflict, as well as the interaction between man and nature. Addressing the inevitable tension between theory and practice, this bookargues for the very real relevance of hé in 21st century cultural, social, political and economic spheres in China and beyond.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Keping Wang
About the author
Keping Wang is a Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) where he was head of Aesthetics Section of CASS Institute of Philosophy from 2005 to 2016, philosophy professor of CASS Graduate School, and Professor of Beijing International Studies University where he worked as Director of Institute for Trans-cultural Studies over a decade. Professor Wang is a former visiting fellow of St. Anne’s College of Oxford University (2000), visiting Professor of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Sydney University (2010) and Sciences Politiques de Bordeaux (2017). His major writings in Chinese include the Moral Poetics in Plato’s Laws (2015), Plato’s Poetics in the Republic (2005, 2014) and Aesthetics in Tourism (2015), with publications in English including the Rediscovery of Sino-Hellenic Ideas (2016) and Reading the Dao: A Thematic Inquiry (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Harmonism as an Alternative
Authors: Keping Wang
Series Title: Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3564-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd. This international edition is exclusively licensed to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. for worldwide distribution outside of China 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3563-1Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3564-8Published: 11 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-8464
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8472
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 148
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Asian Culture, Classical Philosophy, Philosophy of Man, Social Sciences, general