Learning from Chinese Philosophy
Title: Learning from Chinese Philosophy
Time: 17 Nov 2020
Site: online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1URTKw_450
Speaker: Bryan Van Norden
Norden mainly talks about the legality of Chinese
philosophy. There are three typical sophistries:
(1) There is no such thing as Chinese
philosophy.
Response: There are many published books
about Chinese philosophy.
(2) Philosophy refers only to the
intellectual tradition derived from Plato.
Response: Firstly, as geometry developed in
different areas, philosophy appears, too. Secondly, there are rigorously
trained philosophers who recognize other philosophical traditions outside the Anglo-European
tradition.
(3) Chinese philosophy is not any good.
Response: Professor Norden displays how
brilliant arguments in Chinese philosophy.
Note: Norden mentions some books about the west encountering Chinese philosophy in the 17th-18th century. The last book by Francois Quesnay refers to how sage-king Shun inspires the author.
Jesuits: Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
Christian Wolff, “Discourse on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese” (1721)
Christian Wolff, “On the Philosopher King and the Ruling Philosopher"(1730)
Francois Quesnay, Chinese Despotism (1767)