Philip J Ivanhoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1035228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip J Ivanhoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ivanhoe |
| SIGNATURE | IVANHOE P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9962-8150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Comparative Perspectives on the Future of Cosmopolitanism
The Cosmopolitan Guest
Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: Essential Writings of Im Yungjidang and Gang Jeongildang
Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: The Essential of Writings of Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang introduces the lives and thought of two Korean women Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon dynasty (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries), Im Yunjidang 任允摯堂 (1721–1793) and Gang Jeongildang 姜靜一堂 (1772–1832), and sketches some of the ways their work can contribute to contemporary philosophical inquiry. Both women are known f…
The Introspective, Perceptual, and Spontaneous Response Models of Wang Yangming’s Philosophy
There were various dimensions to Yangmingxue 陽明學, or the Yangming school, as defined not only by Wang Yangming 王陽明 himself but also by his students and followers in the mid-late Ming dynasty. This article will treat Yangmingxue as a whole from the perspective of political culture. It will explore two political orientations in Wang Yangming school, namely dejunxingdao 得君行道 (“carrying out the Way through the support of the emperor”) and jueminxingd…
Two Korean Women Confucian Philosophers: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang
This essay introduces two Korean women Confucian philosophers: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang who lived in the latter period of the Joseon dynasty. Im Yunjidang was the first Confucian woman to explicitly claim women possessed an equal capacity to become sages as men. Gang Jeongildang made it clear that she was inspired by and sought to develop the thought of Im and added her own unique insights and new perspectives. Though they and their writ…
Confucianism and Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue
[Scholar’s Corner: [Confucianism in and for the Modern World] Translation as an Expression of Ren
Toegye Yi Hwang’s “Refutation of Wang Yangmyeong’s Record for Practice”
The first part of this article offers a translation and analysis of Toegye’s arguments against Wang Yangmyeong’s philosophy as seen in his short but highly influential essay “Jeonseumnok nonbyeon” (Ch. Chuanxilu lunbian 傳習錄論辯) (Refutation of Wang Yangmyeong’s Record for Practice). It presents an analysis of the arguments found in this influential and remarkable piece of writing and suggests some ways Wang or his later followers might have respond…
Losing Face
Notions of "face" play a central role in traditional East Asian ethics and, in particular, in Confucian views about the self and its cultivation. Awareness of and attention to face is central to self-reflection and evaluation and, when properly employed, motivate one to continue to strive to improve oneself morally. Today, the Chinese Communist Party seeks to monitor and control its population by means of an extensive system of surveillance that …
Zhu Xi: Selected Writings
This volume contains nine chapters of translation focusing on the philosophy of Zhu Xi (1130–1200), one of the most influential Chinese thinkers of the later Confucian tradition. Zhu Xi’s philosophy offers the most systematic and comprehensive expression of the Confucian tradition; he sought to demonstrate the connections between the classics, relate them to a range of contemporary philosophical issues, and defend Confucianism against competing t…
Précis of Oneness
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Neo-Confucian philosophy
Chinese neo-Confucian philosophy, or ‘neo-Confucianism’, is a term which refers to a wide variety of substantially different Chinese thinkers from the Song dynasty (960–1279) through the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). In at least one respect the term is misleading, for unlike Neoplatonists, most neo-Confucians saw themselves as reviving, not revising, the earlier Confucian tradition. What united all these thinkers was a common allegiance to Confucius …
Oneness
At the core of this work lie the oneness hypothesis , which is not a single theory but a family of views found in different forms in a wide variety of disciplines, and its implications for theories of virtue and human happiness. The oneness hypothesis concerns the nature of the world, but it entails a view about the nature of the self and its relationship to other people, creatures, and things. Its core assertion is that we are inextricably inter…
Oneness and Spontaneity
This chapter elaborates on the connections between oneness, moral agency, and spontaneity by distinguishing between two general kinds of spontaneity: untutored spontaneity, which is characteristic of traditions such as Daoism, and cultivated spontaneity, representative of traditions such as Confucianism. This discussion intersects with oneness on the matter of “metaphysical comfort,” the sense of oneness, harmony, and happiness that one experienc…
Conceptions of the Self
This chapter explores the general question of what it is to have a notion of the self and surveys a range of contemporary accounts of what the self might be. It challenges the widely yet uncritically held “hyper-individualist” conception of the self and argues that how one conceives of the self is strongly underdetermined by empirical evidence or conceptual constraints. It presents neo-Confucian conceptions of the self as an example of a traditio…
Oneness and Happiness
This chapter describes in detail the different yet related conceptions of eudaimonia (flourishing, happiness) found in the writings of Kongzi (Confucius), Zhuangzi (a leading Daoist), and the neo-Confucians, all of which, to varying extents and in different ways, embrace the oneness hypothesis and its characteristic moral imperative to care more extensively and fully for the world. It sketches the form of a modern version of the neo-Confucian acc…
Oneness with the World
Chapter 1 looks at traditional robust conceptions of oneness that rely on strong metaphysical claims about the basic nature of all things as the basis for extensive concern for other people, creatures, and things. In particular, it focuses on neo-Confucian conceptions of oneness and their corresponding ethical views. The chapter then considers ways we might separate the plausible moral and prudential implications of such views from their less pla…
Conclusion: East Asian conceptions of virtue, happiness, and how we are all connected
The primary claim of this study is that when we come to understand the true nature of what we are as individuals and as a species, we cannot fail to acknowledge our connections and interdependencies with the rest of the world, and this can, does, and should incline us toward greater care for other people, creatures, and things. The conclusion warns us about some potentially bad forms of oneness and recalls earlier arguments showing how such mista…
Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart: Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia
Three Streams: Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan
Recent interest in Confucianism has a tendency to suffer from essentialism and idealism. This volume addresses this misconstrual and misrepresentation of Confucianism by presenting a philosophically critical account of different Confucian thinkers and schools, across place (China, Korea, and Japan) and time (the 10th to 19th centuries)
Confucian Cosmopolitanism
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are keenly aware of and often deeply engaged with more global or cosmopolitan approaches to their respective fields; nevertheless, theories of cosmopolitanism remain exceedingly controversial and arise exclusively from Western philosophical sources. Recently, M artha N ussbaum presented a contemporary Western liberal cosmopolitan theory and sought to integrate it with a call for multicultural educati…
Historical Understanding in China and the West
This essay describes and compares three attempts to provide accounts of the nature of historical consciousness, along with accompanying explanations of how one comes to have historical knowledge. It explores, compares, and contrasts the views of the late Qing dynasty Chinese philosopher Zhang Xuecheng 章學誠 (1738–1801) and two Western philosophers – R.G. Collingwood (1889–1943) and Louis O. Mink (1921–83). These three thinkers all present historica…
Happiness in Early Chinese Thought
This chapter explores Kongzi’s (or “Confucius”) (551–479 BCE) and Zhuangzi’s (c.399–295 BCE) conceptions of the ideal life—what early Greek thinkers called eudaimonia. The author follows convention by talking about eudaimonia in terms of “happiness” but mean by “happiness” a sense that one’s life is going well, as it should, and in accord with Heavenly patterns and processes. While Kongzi and Zhuangzi both maintain that happiness fulfills an obje…
Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is about the early Chinese Confucian classic the "Analects" Lunyu, attributed to the founder of the Confucian tradition, Kongzi (551-479 bce) and who is more commonly referred to as "Confucius" in the West. Philip J. Ivanhoe argues that the Analects is as relevant and important today as it has proven to be over the course of its more than 2000 year history, not only for the people who live in…
Zhuangzi on Skepticism, Skill, and the Ineffable Dao
Journal Article Zhuangzi on Skepticism, Skill, and the Ineffable Dao Get access Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J Ivanhoe is Assistant Profess or of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-2155 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 4, Winter 1993, Pages 639–654, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.4.639 Pub…
A Happy Symmetry: Xunzi's Ethical Thought
Journal Article A Happy Symmetry: Xunzi's Ethical Thought Get access Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J. Ivanhoe is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Standford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIX, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Pages 309–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.2.309 Published: 01 July 1991
Thinking through Confucius
A Question of Faith: A New Interpretation of Mencius 2B.13
This paper discusses some of the difficulties surrounding the interpretation of Mencius 2B. 13. After considering the most important traditional Chinese commentaries, the author discusses the interpretations of a number of modern scholars, from both the East and the West. He then offers two new interpretations and concludes that the second is the most appropriate
Reflections on the Chin-ssu lu
The Chin-ssu lu 3 is one of the most important texts in the Neo-Confucian tradition. It is an anthology composed of sayings selected from four great Confucians of the early Sung dynasty (9601279): Chou Tun-i MIRE ,' Ch'eng Hao 4j 2 Ch'eng I A ,3 and Chang Tsai Wi .4 It was compiled by Chu Hsi -A ' and Lu Tsu-ch'ien HiFaIM 6 in the summer of 1175, and in it one finds the essential doctrines of what came to be called the Ch'eng-Chu school-the schoo…
Thinking and Learning in Early Confucianism
Reweaving the "One Thread" of the Analects
Zhuangzi's Conversion Experience
Thinking through Confucius
A Happy Symmetry: Xunzi's Ethical Thought
Journal Article A Happy Symmetry: Xunzi's Ethical Thought Get access Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J. Ivanhoe is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Standford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIX, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Pages 309–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.2.309 Published: 01 July 1991
Zhuangzi on Skepticism, Skill, and the Ineffable Dao
Journal Article Zhuangzi on Skepticism, Skill, and the Ineffable Dao Get access Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J. Ivanhoe Philip J Ivanhoe is Assistant Profess or of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-2155 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 4, Winter 1993, Pages 639–654, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.4.639 Pub…
Unreason within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality (review)
Reviews 107 some prevailing assumptions about the study of contemporary Chinese literature in these three "worlds." The greatest merits ofthe book are its comparative mode and its emphasis on the cultural elements that help shape its content. The editor as well as the contributors have certainly done a commendable job in presenting new perspectives and insightful readings of contemporary Chinese literature. Most of the contributors to the book af…
Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mencius and Wang Yang-ming
This volume serves both as an introduction to the thought of Mengzi (Mencius) and Wang Yangming and as a comparison of their views. By examining issues held in common by both thinkers, Ivanhoe illustrates how the Confucian tradition was both continued and transformed by Wang Yangming, and shows the extent to which he was influenced by Buddhism. Topics explored are: the nature of morality; human nature; the nature and origin of wickedness; self cu…
Response to Henry G. Skaja
Was Zhuangzi a Relativist?
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi
The Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi was written by Zhuangzi in the fourth century BCE. With humor and relentless logic Zhuangzi attacks claims to knowledge about the world, especially evaluative knowledge of what is good and bad or right and wrong. This book is about the man and the text. The Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi, written in part by a man named Zhuangzi in late fourth century B.C.E. China, is gaining recognition as one of the c…
Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi
Not a Race Apart: Philosophers in the Classical Period
John Knoblock, Not a Race Apart: Philosophers in the Classical Period, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 49, No. 3, Human "Nature" in Chinese Philosophy: A Panel of the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (Jul., 1999), pp. 360-376
The Daodejing of Laozi
Philip J. Ivanhoe's richly annotated translation of this classic work is accompanied by his engaging interpretation and commentary, a lucid introduction, and a Language Appendix that compares eight classic translations of the opening passage of the work and invites the reader to consider the principles upon which each was rendered
Whose Confucius? Which Analects?
For over two thousand years, Confucian scholars have sought to explicate the meaning of their sacred texts, producing an extensive, rich, and sophisticated commentarial tradition that is an indispensable aid to the modern interpreter.1 In addition to writing formal commentaries, Confucian thinkers regularly referred to and expounded upon the meaning of classical passages in the course of their philosophizing. These thinkers did much more than sim…
Filial piety as a virtue
Filial piety was an important virtue in early Confucianism and was recognized even by critics of the tradition, such as Zhuangzi, as an unavoidable part of human life.1 Such a deep and abiding concern with filial piety is not unique to China alone. Many cultures throughout the world value filial behavior and record, retell, and advocate acts of filial devotion and sacrifice.2 Such behavior is often explained, as Zhuangzi seems to have done, by ap…
Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems
Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character traits or virtues and vices such as courage (cowardice), kindness (heartlessness), and generosity (stinginess). These cha…
Heaven as a Source for Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism
The Paradox of Wuwei
Pluralism, Toleration, and Ethical Promiscuity
This paper argues that from an ethical point of view tolerance, which is simply one of a number of possible responses to ethical pluralism, is not an acceptable ideal. It fails to acknowledge and appreciate the good in other forms of life and thereby does not adequately respect the people who live these lives. Toleration limits the range of goods we might appreciate in our own lives and in the lives of those we care most about, and it tends to le…
Of Geese and Eggs: In What Sense Should We Value Nature as a System
Hanfeizi and Moral Self-Cultivation
Hanfeizi and Moral Self-Cultivation: Hanfeizi and Moral Self-Cultivation
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