John Makeham
Biographic Data
| ID | 487102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Makeham |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Makeham |
| SIGNATURE | MAKEHAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1256-5012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Awakening of Faith and New Confucian Philosophy
This innovative volume demonstrates how and to what ends the writings of Xiong Shili, Ma Yifu, Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan adopted and repurposed conceptual models derived from the Buddhist text Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith. It shows which of the philosophical positions defended by these New Confucian philosophers were developed and sustained through engagement with the critical challenges advanced by scholars who attacked the Treatise. It…
The Awakening of Faith and New Confucian Philosophy
Chinese Philosophy and Universal Values in Contemporary China
Consistent with its growing economic, political and military might, China wants due recognition by and engagement with the global community of nations. This aspiration is complicated by the fact that Chinese political leaders and intellectuals continue to struggle with how “Chinese values” fit with “universal values”, and whether there is a single global modernity or whether there are multiple modernities and multiple—perhaps competing—universal …
The Buddhist Roots of Zhu Xi's Philosophical Thought
Zhu Xi (1130–1200) is the most influential Neo-Confucian philosopher, and arguably the most important Chinese philosopher, of the past millennium, both in terms of his legacy and for the sophistication of his systematic philosophy. The Buddhist Roots of Zhu Xi’s Philosophical Thought combines in a single study two major areas of Chinese philosophy that are rarely tackled together: Chinese Buddhist philosophy and Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucian philosophy.…
Monism and the Problem of the Ignorance and Badness in Chinese Buddhism and Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism
This chapter argues that an understanding of the Buddhist models Zhu Xi had at his disposal can yield new insights into how he constructed and defended the monistic ontology that is the centerpiece of his metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind. The author advances two main theses linking Zhu Xi to the Awakening of Faith . The first concerns the ti-yong polarity, demonstrating that Zhu’s understanding of ti-yong is consistent with the model f…
Transforming Consciousness: Yogacara Thought in Modern China
The Western roots of many aspects of modern Chinese thought have been well documented. Far less well understood, and still largely overlooked, are the influence and significance of the main exemplar of Indian thought in modern China: Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy. This situation is all the more anomalous given that the revival of Yogācāra thought among leading Chinese intellectuals in the first three decades of the twentieth century played a decis…
Disciplining Tradition in Modern China: Two Case Studies
This essay highlights the influential role played by epistemological nativism in the disciplining of tradition in modern China. Chinese epistemological nativism is the view that the articulation and development of China's intellectual heritage must draw exclusively on the paradigms and norms of so-called indigenous/local or China-based perspectives. Two case studies are presented to reveal some of the conundrums that confront the disciplining of …
The Revival of Guoxue: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Aspirations
After some opening remarks on the recent commodification of guoxue, I first trace the rise of guoxue in the contemporary period, and then I examine two topics in more detail: guoxue’s historical and contemporary transformation into an academic discipline; and the immediate origins of guoxue’s pronounced ethnoepistemological character. Through this examination my aim is to bring into greater relief some of the aspirations invested in guoxue by its…
Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy
Lost Soul: “Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse
Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse
Since the mid-1980s, Taiwan and mainland China have witnessed a sustained resurgence of academic and intellectual interest in ruxue - Confucianism - variously conceived as a form of culture, an ideology, a system of learning, and a tradition of normative values. This discourse has led to a proliferation of contending conceptions of ruxue, as well as proposals for rejuvenating it to make it a vital cultural and psycho-spiritual resource in the mod…
Confucian Cultures of Authority
Conservative Thought in Contemporary China . Peter Moody
A Chinese Ethics for the New Century: The Ch'ien Mu Lectures in History and Culture, and Other Essays on Science and Confucian Ethics . David J. Munro
A Cloud across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today . Thomas A. Metzger
Cultural, ethnic, and political nationalism in contemporary Taiwan: Bentuhua
Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan
This volume analyzes what is arguably the single most important aspect of cultural and political change in Taiwan over the past quarter-century: the trend toward 'indigenization' (bentuhua). Focusing
Confucianism for the Modern World . Daniel A. Bell , Hahm Chaibong
Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects
The New Daotong
Many premodern Chinese intellectual traditions and "schools" (especially philosophical and religious ones) share the common characteristic of being retrospectively created. New Confucianism provides students of Chinese intellectual history with a rare opportunity to study this traditional strategy of orthodoxy formation in a contemporary context. One of the earliest and most influential examples of the practice is Sima Tan's 司馬談 (ca. 180–110 b.c.…
The Retrospective Creation of New Confucianism
Although most of the promoters and sympathetic interpreters of New Confucianism trace the movement to the early part of the twentieth century, in fact there is little evidence that New Confucianism had attained a degree of integration or coalescence sufficient for it to be recognized and promoted as a distinct philosophical movement or school of thought before the 1970s. Crucially, up until that time, the “New Confucians” did not have a sense of …
Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects
The Analects (Lunyu) is one of the most influential texts in human history. As a putative record of Confucius' (551-479 bce) teachings and a foundational text in scriptural Confucianism, this classic was instrumental in shaping intellectual traditions in China and East Asia until the early twentieth century. But no premodern reader read only the text of The Analects itself. Rather, The Analects was embedded in a web of interpretation that mediate…
New Confucianism: A Critical Examination
This collection of essays explores the development of the New Confucianism movement during the twentieth-century and questions whether it is, in fact, a distinctly new intellectual movement or one tha
Commentary and Craft
He Van, Xuanxue and the Editorship of the Lunyu jijie
New Confucianism: A Critical Examination
This collection of essays explores the development of the New Confucianism movement during the twentieth-century and questions whether it is, in fact, a distinctly new intellectual movement or one tha
Disciplining Tradition in Modern China: Two Case Studies
This essay highlights the influential role played by epistemological nativism in the disciplining of tradition in modern China. Chinese epistemological nativism is the view that the articulation and development of China's intellectual heritage must draw exclusively on the paradigms and norms of so-called indigenous/local or China-based perspectives. Two case studies are presented to reveal some of the conundrums that confront the disciplining of …
The chien-pai Sophism: Alive and Well
The Legalist Concept of Hsing-Ming: An Example of the Contribution of Archaeological Evidence to the Re-Interpretation of Transmitted Texts
Names, Actualities, and the Emergence of Essentialist Theories of Naming in Classical Chinese Thought
East–West philosophy conference report
(1993). 1993 East–West philosophy conference report. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 162-165
The Analects and reputation: A note on Analects 15.18 and 15.19
In this note I shall re-present an old solution to a small problem that was noted by Arthur Waley a little over fifty years ago.2 In the course of doing so, I shall also challenge the view that the Analects does lend support to the view that Confucius maintained that it was important for the gentleman ( jun zi ) to secure a reputation. Finally, I shall comment briefly on the significance that my overall analysis has for the view that the Analects…
Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought
News item: 1993 East‐West philosophy conference report
Name and actuality in early Chinese thought
The Formation of Lunyu as a Book
The Earliest Extant Commentary on Lunyu: Lunyu Zheng Shi Zhu
Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought
The Confucian role of names in traditional Chinese gardens
Although the arts that Confucius referred to in this passage were not the same art forms cultivated by Confucian gendemen of later ages, Confucius' injunction is significant in that it has been understood to confirm that, already in the earliest Confucian teachings, an intimate association was posited between moral cultivation and the enjoyment of artistic pursuits. In his masterly study of the rock in Chinese art, I believe John Hay provides us …
He Van, Xuanxue and the Editorship of the Lunyu jijie
Commentary and Craft
Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects
The New Daotong
Many premodern Chinese intellectual traditions and "schools" (especially philosophical and religious ones) share the common characteristic of being retrospectively created. New Confucianism provides students of Chinese intellectual history with a rare opportunity to study this traditional strategy of orthodoxy formation in a contemporary context. One of the earliest and most influential examples of the practice is Sima Tan's 司馬談 (ca. 180–110 b.c.…
The Retrospective Creation of New Confucianism
Although most of the promoters and sympathetic interpreters of New Confucianism trace the movement to the early part of the twentieth century, in fact there is little evidence that New Confucianism had attained a degree of integration or coalescence sufficient for it to be recognized and promoted as a distinct philosophical movement or school of thought before the 1970s. Crucially, up until that time, the “New Confucians” did not have a sense of …
Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects
The Analects (Lunyu) is one of the most influential texts in human history. As a putative record of Confucius' (551-479 bce) teachings and a foundational text in scriptural Confucianism, this classic was instrumental in shaping intellectual traditions in China and East Asia until the early twentieth century. But no premodern reader read only the text of The Analects itself. Rather, The Analects was embedded in a web of interpretation that mediate…
New Confucianism: A Critical Examination
This collection of essays explores the development of the New Confucianism movement during the twentieth-century and questions whether it is, in fact, a distinctly new intellectual movement or one tha
Confucianism for the Modern World . Daniel A. Bell , Hahm Chaibong
Cultural, ethnic, and political nationalism in contemporary Taiwan: Bentuhua
Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan
This volume analyzes what is arguably the single most important aspect of cultural and political change in Taiwan over the past quarter-century: the trend toward 'indigenization' (bentuhua). Focusing
A Chinese Ethics for the New Century: The Ch'ien Mu Lectures in History and Culture, and Other Essays on Science and Confucian Ethics . David J. Munro
A Cloud across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today . Thomas A. Metzger
Lost Soul: “Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse
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