Cornel West blurbs Tavis Smiley
I wrote this on 15 January 2007, Martin Luther King’s birthday: Tavis Smiley interviews Cornel West, Jan 12, 2007 Cornel blurbs Tavis: I think that when it comes to mass media, this particular show enacts the legacy because what you have been able to do, Tavis. The reason why I believe you’re the most brilliant [...]
Pragmatism Blues
“. . . the Americans are worlds behind in all theoretical things, and while they did not bring over any medieval institutions from Europe they did bring over masses of medieval traditions, English common (feudal) law, superstition, spiritualism, in short every kind of imbecility which was not directly harmful to business and which is now [...]
Arthur Danto on Mysticism and Morality
Danto, Arthur C. Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Orig. 1972. 1. Factual Beliefs and Moral Rules 2. Karma and Caste 3. Brahma, Boredom, and Release 4. Therapy and Theology in Buddhist Thought 5. The Discipline of Action in the Bhagavad Gita 6. Conforming to the Way [...]
Reactionary Chinese & other wisdom in comparative perspective
Wisdom and Chinese Philosophy Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 33, no 3., September 2006 Discounting the book reviews unrelated to the issue theme, here are the contents: What Is Wisdom? (Chung-Ying Cheng) Wisdom in Comparative Perspectives (Xinzhong Yao) Philosophy of the Yijing: Insights into Taiji and Dao as Wisdom of Life (Chung-Ying Cheng) Yi: Practical [...]
The Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy (2)
“I must Create a System, or be enslav’d by another Mans” – William Blake, Jerusalem 10.20 More on: The Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy, Part III Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 37, no. 3, Spring 2006. The demarcation of a discipline called “philosophy” and the question of the commensurability of disparate intellectual traditions—the Chinese and the Western [...]
The Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy (1)
The Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy, Part III Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 37, no. 3, Spring 2006. Editors’ Introduction (Carine Defoort & Ge Zhaoguang) Modern Construction and Explanatory Models of the History of Philosophy (Zhao Dunhua) A False But Meaningful Issue: A Reading of the “Legitimacy Issue in Chinese Philosophy” (Yu Wujin) On the New Round [...]
