Dawid Rogacz
Biographic Data
| ID | 484877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dawid Rogacz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dawid |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogacz |
| SIGNATURE | ROGACZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0007-7599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interplanetary Revolutions: Marxist Transhumanism, Mao’s Cosmic Communism, and Beyond
The paper introduces the transhumanism and cosmic communism of Mao Zedong and discusses its relation to a Marxian conception of human nature and analogous Soviet visions. Having shown that the two-sided understanding of human nature in Marx opened doors for its transhumanist interpretations, the article identifies instances of the latter in the ideal of the New Soviet Man, the views of Trotsky, and the communist (or at least Sovietized) cosmism o…
The Revival of Confucian Philosophy Through Its Interaction with Daoism: The Case of Sixth-Century Master Liu (Liuzi)
This paper offers the first English-language philosophical treatment of Master Liu (Liuzi 劉子)-a treatise that gives a unique insight into the intellectual life of sixth-century China. Most probably written by Liu Zhou (d. 565) and known at the Tang court, the work was later neglected due to its eclectic label. This article argues that Liuzi integrated Confucian moral philosophy with selected Daoist ideas and responded to post-Buddhist transformat…
The struggle for memory: Jian Bozan on historical materialism
This paper offers a first analysis of the philosophy of history developed by Jian Bozan (1898–1968), the author of China's earliest comprehensive exposition of historical materialism. Despite his central importance for the establishment of professional historical studies in PRC, the existing studies neglect Jian's original contribution to the development of Chinese Marxism and his pre-war works in general, focusing solely on his participation in …
The Idea of Supreme Peace (Taiping) in Premodern Chinese Philosophies of History
The paper examines the development of the idea of Supreme Peace (taiping 太平) in premodern Chinese philosophies of history. It is shown that while Daoists identified it with the pristine unity of humans and nature, Han Confucians equated Supreme Peace with the harmonious social system under the rule of one of the first Chinese emperors or Confucius. In the latter case, the notion of taiping was reduced to a descriptive category, which was then emp…
Pushed Forward by Lifted Hearts: On Stanislaus Lo Kuang's Sino-Christian Philosophy of History
This article presents an analysis of the Sino-Christian philosophy of history created by Archbishop Stanislaus Lo Kuang (1911-2004), whose comprehensive view of historiography and the historical process situates him amongst very few contemporary thinkers interested in developing a distinctively Christian yet strictly philosophical outlook of human history. It is shown that for Lo, an inquiry into the structure of historical facts leads to uncover…
Sincerity (cheng) as a civic and political virtue in classical confucian philosophy
The paper reconstructs the classical Confucian approach to sincerity (cheng 誠) as a political virtue of the governing and a civic virtue of the governed. For Confucian thinkers, sincerity thus understood shapes both the rulers and the ruled in terms of the common good, and guarantees the stability of a just political system. It is shown that for Confucius and the Zuo Commentary one of the key political and civic virtues was reliability (trustwort…
Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy: The Reception and the Exclusion
Why were Chinese and Indian ways of thinking excluded from European philosophy in early modern times? This is a study of what happened to the European understanding of China and India between the 17th century and the late 18th-century. In 1600 Otto van Heurn published Barbaricae philosophiae antiquitatum introducing, for the first time in a history of philosophy, Indian philosophical thought. But a century and a half later Jakob Brucker’s De Phil…
Historical materialism in medieval China: The cases of Liu Zongyuan (773-819) and Li Gou (1009-1059)
It is commonly assumed that historical materialism was first developed by Karl Marx, whose philosophy is often equated with this idea. The following paper challenges this opinion by showing that historical materialism, understood as a general position within the philosophy of history, can be traced back to two generally unheralded Chinese thinkers: Liu Zongyuan (773–819) and Li Gou (1009–1059). Historical materialism is here understood as a stand…
Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Challenging the Eurocentric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book reconstructs Chinese thought and offers the first systematic treatment of classical Chinese philosophy of history. Dawid Rogacz charts the development from pre-imperial Confucian philosophy of history, the Warring States period and the Han dynasty through to the neo-Confucian philosophy of the Tang and Song era and finally to the Ming and Qi…
Racist curricula and the challenge of multicultural philosophy: Bryan Van Norden’s Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
This review essay discusses Bryan Van Norden’s book Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto. Van Norden analyzes the situation in which the West deprives philosophies from other cultural traditions of their philosophical nature, as well as the cultural and political conditioning of this problem. Van Norden convincingly demonstrates implicit racism hidden behind philosophy curricula, which is supported by increasing nationalism in both E…
The Virtue of a Historian: A Dialogue Between Herman Paul and Chinese Theorists of History
This article reflects on the role of scholarly virtues in the Chinese theory of history and compares it with the recent approach proposed by Herman Paul. The first three parts reconstruct what might be called a "Chinese virtue epistemology of history," starting from Confucian views on sincerity in writing history and then turns to concepts of an "unbiased mind" and the "responsibility of a historian." The latter ideas were developed by Zhang Xuec…
The birth of enlightenment secularism from the spirit of Confucianism
The aim of the essay is to demonstrate that the contact of European philosophy with Chinese thought in the second half of the 17th and 18th century influenced the rise and development of secularism, which became a distinctive feature of the Western Enlightenment. The first part examines how knowing the history of China and Confucian ethics has questioned biblical chronology and undermined faith as a necessary condition of morality. These allegati…
Unheeded history: A critical engagement with Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s ‘postnarrativism’
Contemporary theory of history struggles in finding a new research agenda ‘after narrativism.’ One such theoretical example is Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography. This essay argues that Kuukkanen’s position falls within the ambit of his own criteria of narrativism, namely constructivism, representationalism, and holism. Yet, at the same time, Kuukkanen’s reconstruction of narrativism raises serious questions conc…
In the Shadow of the Decay. The Philosophy of History of Mencius and Xunzi
The aim of my paper is to analyze the debate between Mencius and Xunzi from the perspective of their views on the nature of the historical process. The Mencian approach embraces not only elaboration on the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven, resulting in a cyclical vision of history, but also strong idealization of the past. I will show that ren (benevolence), treated as a historical principle, could link two dimensions of his historical thinking:…
Interplanetary Revolutions: Marxist Transhumanism, Mao’s Cosmic Communism, and Beyond
The paper introduces the transhumanism and cosmic communism of Mao Zedong and discusses its relation to a Marxian conception of human nature and analogous Soviet visions. Having shown that the two-sided understanding of human nature in Marx opened doors for its transhumanist interpretations, the article identifies instances of the latter in the ideal of the New Soviet Man, the views of Trotsky, and the communist (or at least Sovietized) cosmism o…
Sincerity (cheng) as a civic and political virtue in classical confucian philosophy
The paper reconstructs the classical Confucian approach to sincerity (cheng 誠) as a political virtue of the governing and a civic virtue of the governed. For Confucian thinkers, sincerity thus understood shapes both the rulers and the ruled in terms of the common good, and guarantees the stability of a just political system. It is shown that for Confucius and the Zuo Commentary one of the key political and civic virtues was reliability (trustwort…
The Virtue of a Historian: A Dialogue Between Herman Paul and Chinese Theorists of History
This article reflects on the role of scholarly virtues in the Chinese theory of history and compares it with the recent approach proposed by Herman Paul. The first three parts reconstruct what might be called a "Chinese virtue epistemology of history," starting from Confucian views on sincerity in writing history and then turns to concepts of an "unbiased mind" and the "responsibility of a historian." The latter ideas were developed by Zhang Xuec…
In the Shadow of the Decay. The Philosophy of History of Mencius and Xunzi
The aim of my paper is to analyze the debate between Mencius and Xunzi from the perspective of their views on the nature of the historical process. The Mencian approach embraces not only elaboration on the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven, resulting in a cyclical vision of history, but also strong idealization of the past. I will show that ren (benevolence), treated as a historical principle, could link two dimensions of his historical thinking:…
The birth of enlightenment secularism from the spirit of Confucianism
The aim of the essay is to demonstrate that the contact of European philosophy with Chinese thought in the second half of the 17th and 18th century influenced the rise and development of secularism, which became a distinctive feature of the Western Enlightenment. The first part examines how knowing the history of China and Confucian ethics has questioned biblical chronology and undermined faith as a necessary condition of morality. These allegati…
Unheeded history: A critical engagement with Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s ‘postnarrativism’
Contemporary theory of history struggles in finding a new research agenda ‘after narrativism.’ One such theoretical example is Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography. This essay argues that Kuukkanen’s position falls within the ambit of his own criteria of narrativism, namely constructivism, representationalism, and holism. Yet, at the same time, Kuukkanen’s reconstruction of narrativism raises serious questions conc…
Racist curricula and the challenge of multicultural philosophy: Bryan Van Norden’s Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
This review essay discusses Bryan Van Norden’s book Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto. Van Norden analyzes the situation in which the West deprives philosophies from other cultural traditions of their philosophical nature, as well as the cultural and political conditioning of this problem. Van Norden convincingly demonstrates implicit racism hidden behind philosophy curricula, which is supported by increasing nationalism in both E…
The Virtue of a Historian: A Dialogue Between Herman Paul and Chinese Theorists of History
This article reflects on the role of scholarly virtues in the Chinese theory of history and compares it with the recent approach proposed by Herman Paul. The first three parts reconstruct what might be called a "Chinese virtue epistemology of history," starting from Confucian views on sincerity in writing history and then turns to concepts of an "unbiased mind" and the "responsibility of a historian." The latter ideas were developed by Zhang Xuec…
Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Challenging the Eurocentric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book reconstructs Chinese thought and offers the first systematic treatment of classical Chinese philosophy of history. Dawid Rogacz charts the development from pre-imperial Confucian philosophy of history, the Warring States period and the Han dynasty through to the neo-Confucian philosophy of the Tang and Song era and finally to the Ming and Qi…
Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy: The Reception and the Exclusion
Why were Chinese and Indian ways of thinking excluded from European philosophy in early modern times? This is a study of what happened to the European understanding of China and India between the 17th century and the late 18th-century. In 1600 Otto van Heurn published Barbaricae philosophiae antiquitatum introducing, for the first time in a history of philosophy, Indian philosophical thought. But a century and a half later Jakob Brucker’s De Phil…
Historical materialism in medieval China: The cases of Liu Zongyuan (773-819) and Li Gou (1009-1059)
It is commonly assumed that historical materialism was first developed by Karl Marx, whose philosophy is often equated with this idea. The following paper challenges this opinion by showing that historical materialism, understood as a general position within the philosophy of history, can be traced back to two generally unheralded Chinese thinkers: Liu Zongyuan (773–819) and Li Gou (1009–1059). Historical materialism is here understood as a stand…
The struggle for memory: Jian Bozan on historical materialism
This paper offers a first analysis of the philosophy of history developed by Jian Bozan (1898–1968), the author of China's earliest comprehensive exposition of historical materialism. Despite his central importance for the establishment of professional historical studies in PRC, the existing studies neglect Jian's original contribution to the development of Chinese Marxism and his pre-war works in general, focusing solely on his participation in …
The Idea of Supreme Peace (Taiping) in Premodern Chinese Philosophies of History
The paper examines the development of the idea of Supreme Peace (taiping 太平) in premodern Chinese philosophies of history. It is shown that while Daoists identified it with the pristine unity of humans and nature, Han Confucians equated Supreme Peace with the harmonious social system under the rule of one of the first Chinese emperors or Confucius. In the latter case, the notion of taiping was reduced to a descriptive category, which was then emp…
Pushed Forward by Lifted Hearts: On Stanislaus Lo Kuang's Sino-Christian Philosophy of History
This article presents an analysis of the Sino-Christian philosophy of history created by Archbishop Stanislaus Lo Kuang (1911-2004), whose comprehensive view of historiography and the historical process situates him amongst very few contemporary thinkers interested in developing a distinctively Christian yet strictly philosophical outlook of human history. It is shown that for Lo, an inquiry into the structure of historical facts leads to uncover…
Sincerity (cheng) as a civic and political virtue in classical confucian philosophy
The paper reconstructs the classical Confucian approach to sincerity (cheng 誠) as a political virtue of the governing and a civic virtue of the governed. For Confucian thinkers, sincerity thus understood shapes both the rulers and the ruled in terms of the common good, and guarantees the stability of a just political system. It is shown that for Confucius and the Zuo Commentary one of the key political and civic virtues was reliability (trustwort…
Interplanetary Revolutions: Marxist Transhumanism, Mao’s Cosmic Communism, and Beyond
The paper introduces the transhumanism and cosmic communism of Mao Zedong and discusses its relation to a Marxian conception of human nature and analogous Soviet visions. Having shown that the two-sided understanding of human nature in Marx opened doors for its transhumanist interpretations, the article identifies instances of the latter in the ideal of the New Soviet Man, the views of Trotsky, and the communist (or at least Sovietized) cosmism o…
The Revival of Confucian Philosophy Through Its Interaction with Daoism: The Case of Sixth-Century Master Liu (Liuzi)
This paper offers the first English-language philosophical treatment of Master Liu (Liuzi 劉子)-a treatise that gives a unique insight into the intellectual life of sixth-century China. Most probably written by Liu Zhou (d. 565) and known at the Tang court, the work was later neglected due to its eclectic label. This article argues that Liuzi integrated Confucian moral philosophy with selected Daoist ideas and responded to post-Buddhist transformat…
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