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Those Who Act Ruin It - Jacob Bender

Those Who Act Ruin It

A Daoist Account of Moral Attunement

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Buch | Hardcover
237 Seiten
2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9858-4 (ISBN)
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Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.
Drawing on both western and Chinese philosophy, Those Who Act Ruin It shows how Daoism presents a viable alternative to established moral theories. The Daoist, critical of the Confucian and Mohist discourses of their time, provides an account of morality that can best be understood as achieving an attunement to situations through the cultivation of habits. Furthermore, Daoism's meta-ethical insights outline how moral philosophy, when theorized in a way that ignores our fundamental interdependence, devolves into moralistic narcissism. Another way of putting this, as the Daodejing states perfectly, is that "those who act ruin it" (為者敗之). Sensitive to this problem, the Daoist account of moral attunement can ameliorate social woes and not "ruin things." In their moral attunement, Daoists can spontaneously respond to situations in ways that are sensitive to the underlying interdependence of all things.

Jacob Bender is Hua-Shan Associate Professor of Philosophy at Xidian University, Xi’an.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Lao-Zhuang Daoism

1. An Embodied Account of Experience and Meaning in Daoist Philosophy

2. "Without Action"

3. On Being "Without Desire" in Lao-Zhuang Daoism

4. The "Nonnaturalistic Fallacy" in Lao-Zhuang Daoism

5. Alienation and Attunement in the Zhuangzi

6. The Daoist Critique of Moral Bigotry

Conclusion: A Daoist Alternative to the "Sages"

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 1-4384-9858-6 / 1438498586
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-9858-4 / 9781438498584
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