Threading, Stitching, and Weaving: An Exploration of Referencing and Inferencing Processes in Cross-Civilizational Communication
Bell and Wang acknowledge in Just Hierarchy that the persuasive power of their arguments is likely to be much higher in Confucian societies. But what exactly do the ‘Chinese/Confucian experiences’ of the readers, Chinese or Western, deliver in their learning process? I argue that writers rely on the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2022
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Ethical perspectives
Year: 2022, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 455-478 |
| Review of: | Just hierarchy (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020) (Zang, Shanruo)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Philosophy
/ Political theory
/ East-West relations
/ International communication
/ Hierarchy
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| IxTheo Classification: | BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia NCD Political ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Bell and Wang acknowledge in Just Hierarchy that the persuasive power of their arguments is likely to be much higher in Confucian societies. But what exactly do the ‘Chinese/Confucian experiences’ of the readers, Chinese or Western, deliver in their learning process? I argue that writers rely on their readers’ familiarity with and ability to access validating references as well as rationalizing inference licenses to bring the new knowledge to life. Drawing on recent progresses in Western philosophy about language, reasoning, and argumentation, I examine how references and inferences work in this profoundly challenging and uniquely exciting cross-civilizational communication process between China and the West and discuss measures that would advance our epistemological and methodological endeavours in this direction. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1431 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical perspectives
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/EP.29.4.3291690 |