Adapting: a Chinese philosophy of action
"Philosophy of action in the context of Classical China is radically different from its counterpart in the contemporary Western philosophical narrative. Classical Chinese philosophers began from the assumption that relations are primary to the constitution of the person, hence acting in the ear...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Philosophy of action in the context of Classical China is radically different from its counterpart in the contemporary Western philosophical narrative. Classical Chinese philosophers began from the assumption that relations are primary to the constitution of the person, hence acting in the early Chinese context necessarily is interacting and co-acting along with others -human and nonhuman actors. This book is the first monograph dedicated to the exploration and rigorous reconstruction of an extraordinary strategy for efficacious relational action devised by Classical Chinese philosophers in order to account for the interdependent and embedded character of human agency -what the author has denominated "adapting" or "adaptive agency" (yin). As opposed to more unilateral approaches to action also conceptualized in the Classical Chinese corpus, such as forceful and prescriptive agency, adapting requires great capacity of self and other-awareness, equanimity, flexibility, creativity, and response, which allows the agent to co-raise courses of action ad-hoc: unique and temporary solutions to specific, non-permanent, and non-generalizable life problems. Adapting is one of the world's oldest philosophies of action, and yet it is shockingly new for contemporary audiences, who will find in it an unlikely source of inspiration to deal with our current global problems. This book explores the core conception of adapting both on autochthonous terms and by cross-cultural comparison, drawing on the European and Analytic philosophical traditions as well as on scholarship from other disciplines, opening a brand-new topic in Chinese and comparative philosophy"-- |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Philosophy of Action Interconnected Entities Relationality Efficacious Agency Adapting Contrast with Other Models The Co-Action Paradigm A Note on Methodology 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 8 1. What Is Adaptive Agency? Overview Strategies Ad Hoc Lack of Constant Standards Constitutive Standards versus Structural Goals The Radical Question: How to Act? Adapting: A Meta-Model of Action How to Train in Adaptability: Theory and Praxis Educating in Adaptive Agency 10 10 10 13 17 19 22 25 30 2. Locating Adaptive Agency Overview A Constellation of Words Yin as a Defined Concept Yin without Adapting Nominal Usage of Yin Adverbial Usage of Yin Verbal Usage of Yin Adapting without Yin What Is Not Adapting Flexibility Relying Conforming Balancing Spontaneity 35 35 35 39 46 46 48 49 51 53 53 54 55 57 58
viii CONTENTS How to Solve These Problems Semantic Fields Metaphor Schemas 3. Strategy and Control Overview The Military Literature The Han Conquest: Forceful versus Adaptive Agency A Civil War to Remember Writing the Story The Zhou Conquest: Moral versus Adaptive Agency Portrayals of King Wu Valuing Adaptability Spring and Autumn Warfare: Prescriptive versus Adaptive Agency Adapting, Strategy, and Control 60 61 62 67 67 67 68 68 70 74 74 75 84 89 4. The Reifying Pattern Overview The Reification of Fate Ming as Fate Origins of Ming The Process of Reification Two Case Studies oí Mingas Fate-Object Mengzi The Way of Tang and Yu 95 95 96 96 97 99 104 104 114 5. Coping with Uncertainty Overview Prescriptive Agency: Conforming Calendars, Order, and Ideology Calendars, Prediction, and Legitimacy Other Forms of Divination Conforming and Adapting Philosophical Proposals to Deal with Uncertainty Matching, or the Philosophical Turn of Conformity: Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor and “Sayings Explained” Self-Vigilance, or the Turn Inward: Qiongda yishi Adapting, or the Turn Outward: Zhuangzi 6 “Great Ancestral Master” 121 121 121 121 122 125 126 127 6. The Unifying Pattern Overview Non-Reification Nobjects Boundless and Unperceivable: Dao and Sage The Process of De-Reification 149 149 149 149 151 153 127 134 139
CONTENTS Genesis ofthe Normative Concept of Adapting Biological Adapting Cultural Adapting Normative Adapting The Culture Hero Yu Realization and Freedom Non-Dual Pervasion Joy Play Freedom Notes Bibliography Index ІХ 156 156 158 159 160 162 162 166 167 170 173 199 207
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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Philosophy of Action Interconnected Entities Relationality Efficacious Agency Adapting Contrast with Other Models The Co-Action Paradigm A Note on Methodology 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 8 1. What Is Adaptive Agency? Overview Strategies Ad Hoc Lack of Constant Standards Constitutive Standards versus Structural Goals The Radical Question: How to Act? Adapting: A Meta-Model of Action How to Train in Adaptability: Theory and Praxis Educating in Adaptive Agency 10 10 10 13 17 19 22 25 30 2. Locating Adaptive Agency Overview A Constellation of Words Yin as a Defined Concept Yin without Adapting Nominal Usage of Yin Adverbial Usage of Yin Verbal Usage of Yin Adapting without Yin What Is Not Adapting Flexibility Relying Conforming Balancing Spontaneity 35 35 35 39 46 46 48 49 51 53 53 54 55 57 58
viii CONTENTS How to Solve These Problems Semantic Fields Metaphor Schemas 3. Strategy and Control Overview The Military Literature The Han Conquest: Forceful versus Adaptive Agency A Civil War to Remember Writing the Story The Zhou Conquest: Moral versus Adaptive Agency Portrayals of King Wu Valuing Adaptability Spring and Autumn Warfare: Prescriptive versus Adaptive Agency Adapting, Strategy, and Control 60 61 62 67 67 67 68 68 70 74 74 75 84 89 4. The Reifying Pattern Overview The Reification of Fate Ming as Fate Origins of Ming The Process of Reification Two Case Studies oí Mingas Fate-Object Mengzi The Way of Tang and Yu 95 95 96 96 97 99 104 104 114 5. Coping with Uncertainty Overview Prescriptive Agency: Conforming Calendars, Order, and Ideology Calendars, Prediction, and Legitimacy Other Forms of Divination Conforming and Adapting Philosophical Proposals to Deal with Uncertainty Matching, or the Philosophical Turn of Conformity: Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor and “Sayings Explained” Self-Vigilance, or the Turn Inward: Qiongda yishi Adapting, or the Turn Outward: Zhuangzi 6 “Great Ancestral Master” 121 121 121 121 122 125 126 127 6. The Unifying Pattern Overview Non-Reification Nobjects Boundless and Unperceivable: Dao and Sage The Process of De-Reification 149 149 149 149 151 153 127 134 139
CONTENTS Genesis ofthe Normative Concept of Adapting Biological Adapting Cultural Adapting Normative Adapting The Culture Hero Yu Realization and Freedom Non-Dual Pervasion Joy Play Freedom Notes Bibliography Index ІХ 156 156 158 159 160 162 162 166 167 170 173 199 207 |
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