The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things
A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being

Yang Guorong (Author), Hans-Georg Moeller (Foreword by), Chad Austin Meyers (Translated by)

9780253021113

Paperback / softback, published 15 April 2016

328 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.431 kg

"[F]or students of Chinese religions and philosophies[this] book will prove to be an exclusive and valuable experience in encountering the vast repository of the multifarious resources of the Chinese intellectual heritage."—Religious Studies Review

Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things, Yang grapples with the philosophical problem of how the complexly interwoven nature of things and being relates to human nature, values, affairs, and facts, and ultimately creates a world of meaning. Yang outlines how humans might live more fully integrated lives on philosophical, religious, cultural, aesthetic, and material planes. This first English translation introduces current, influential work from China to readers worldwide.

Preface Context and Concepts: Yang Guorong's Concrete Metaphysics
Hans-Georg Moeller
Introduction
1. Meaning in the Context of Accomplishing Oneself and Accomplishing Things
2. Human Capacities and a World of Meaning
3. Systems of Norms and the Genesis of Meaning
4. Meaning in the World of Spirit
5. Meaning and Reality
6. Meaning and the Individual
7. Accomplishing Oneself and Accomplishing Things: Value in a World of Meaning
Notes
Bibliography
Index