Sarah A Mattice
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah A Mattice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattice |
| SIGNATURE | MATTICE S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3930-3642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Adapting
Mercedes Valmisa's 2021 monograph, Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action, constructs a sophisticated and nuanced account of action—what she calls “adaptive agency”—centered on early Chinese philosophical sources. Valmisa argues that the process of acting is one of the most fundamental topics of concern in early China, and Chinese philosophers had their own assumptions, developed their own vocabulary, and built distinctive conceptual tools to e…
Shinran as Global Philosopher
Gutoku Shinran 愚禿親鸞 (1173-1263) is one of Japan's most creative and influential thinkers. He is the (posthumous) founder of what ultimately became Jōdo Shinshū, better known today as Shin Buddhism, the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan. Despite this, his work has not received the global attention of other historical Japanese philosophical figures such as Kūkai 空海 (774-835) or Dōgen 道元 (1200-1253). The relationships of influence betw…
Why Be Moral
This is a book review of "Why be Moral?" Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers
Artistry as Methodology
Although aesthetics has been to some extent marginalized in western philosophy, within the Chinese philosophical tradition aesthetics plays a key role. This article explores Chinese aesthetics as a site of valuable resources for rethinking the ways in which we conceptualize philosophical activity. After introducing a few distinct features of the Chinese aesthetic tradition, the article examines aesthetic distance in terms of guan, he, and ying, C…
On ‘Rectifying’ Rectification
Both an emphasis on logic and an emphasis on rhetoric lead to a kind of care for language. However, in early Greece this care for language through the lens of logic manifested in the drive to ‘get it right’, whereas in early China the care for language manifested in the pervasive concern for zhengming, for using names properly. For the early Chinese thinkers, especially the early Confucians, this was not predominantly a linguistic affair—zhengmin…
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On ‘Rectifying’ Rectification
Both an emphasis on logic and an emphasis on rhetoric lead to a kind of care for language. However, in early Greece this care for language through the lens of logic manifested in the drive to ‘get it right’, whereas in early China the care for language manifested in the pervasive concern for zhengming, for using names properly. For the early Chinese thinkers, especially the early Confucians, this was not predominantly a linguistic affair—zhengmin…
Artistry as Methodology
Although aesthetics has been to some extent marginalized in western philosophy, within the Chinese philosophical tradition aesthetics plays a key role. This article explores Chinese aesthetics as a site of valuable resources for rethinking the ways in which we conceptualize philosophical activity. After introducing a few distinct features of the Chinese aesthetic tradition, the article examines aesthetic distance in terms of guan, he, and ying, C…
Why Be Moral
This is a book review of "Why be Moral?" Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers
Shinran as Global Philosopher
Gutoku Shinran 愚禿親鸞 (1173-1263) is one of Japan's most creative and influential thinkers. He is the (posthumous) founder of what ultimately became Jōdo Shinshū, better known today as Shin Buddhism, the most widely practiced form of Buddhism in Japan. Despite this, his work has not received the global attention of other historical Japanese philosophical figures such as Kūkai 空海 (774-835) or Dōgen 道元 (1200-1253). The relationships of influence betw…
Adapting
Mercedes Valmisa's 2021 monograph, Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action, constructs a sophisticated and nuanced account of action—what she calls “adaptive agency”—centered on early Chinese philosophical sources. Valmisa argues that the process of acting is one of the most fundamental topics of concern in early China, and Chinese philosophers had their own assumptions, developed their own vocabulary, and built distinctive conceptual tools to e…
Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · China (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work)