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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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Pubblicazione: |
2022
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| In: |
Asian philosophy
Anno: 2022, Volume: 32, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 215-235 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Mengzi 372 a.C.-289 a.C.
/ Xunzi ca. 340 a.C./298 - 245 a.C./230
/ Dibattito
/ Olismo
/ Normatività
/ Umanità
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | AB Filosofia delle religioni BM Universismo cinese; Confucianesimo; Taoismo KBM Asia TB Antichità classica VA Filosofia |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
path-bound normativity
B Historical holism B Mencius-Xunzi dispute B xing / 性 B retrospective necessity |
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| Riepilogo: | 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 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2021.1977456 |
