Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference

Intercivilizational Engagement
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-227-17381-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: James Clarke and Co Ltd

A study of inter-civilisational hermeneutics drawing on diverse classical and modern sources to construct a new hermeneutical theory for a postcolonial age.

In response to the religious and spiritual transition experienced in our modern world, Chung creates a postcolonial framework for inter-religious exchange, focussing on issues of interpretation, moral deliberation and ethical praxis. He investigates the relationship between hermeneutical theory and ethics and produces a new theory for intercivilizational dialogue, studying theological-philosophical theory of interpretation, ethics, the experience of cultural hybridity and inter-civilisational alliance, set within multiple horizons and diverse contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chung, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Foreword by John Berthrong
Preface
Introduction

Part I: Hermeneutical Theory and Human Experience
1. Interpretation and Experience
2. Interpretation and Life Connection
3. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
4. Understanding and Linguistic Existence

Part II: Intercivilizational Encounters: Interpretation and Ethical Subject
5. Mediation: The Hermeneutical Self and Moral Self
6. Interpretation and Ethics of Virtue: Aristotle Revisited
7. Intercivilizational Encounters: The Mean in Confucian Ethics
8. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Virtue Ethics and Analogy
9. A Comparative Religious Study of Aquinas and Mengzi

Part III: Aftermath of Modernity: Discourse Reason and Ethics of the Other
10. Interpretation in Long Route and Social Location
11. Discourse Ethics and Communicative Rationality
12. Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Neo-Kantian Framework
13. Aesthetics of Existence and Ethics of Alterity

Part IV: Intercivilizational Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Colonialism
14. Intercivilizational Reconstruction and Global-Critical Inquiry
15. Engaging the Cave and the Butterfly: Dialectics of Enlightenment and Neo-Confucian Self
16. Interpretation as Conflict and Creativity: Retrieval of Wang Yangming
17. Concluding Reflection: The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference

Epilogue: Interpretive Reason and Postcolonial Irregularity

Bibliography
Index