Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2010
Abstract
Traditionally, metaphysical notions of self and other presuppose a dualism that underlies much of Western philosophy. This dualism is opposed by accounts of self and other in recent continental philosophy and classical Chinese philosophy, which I compare. I argue that the self is seen in continental and Chinese thought as embedded in (ethical) relations and language, and not as transcendent or prior in the metaphysical sense to them. I argue for this by focussing on three themes: self and language, self as relational and embedded in the world or contextual environment, and self and the particular other. These three themes show that the complexity and dynamic of the self-other relation is much more realistically conveyed by continental and classical Chinese thought than by the traditional metaphysical account.
Discipline
Metaphysics | Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Philosophy Compass
Volume
5
Issue
9
First Page
735
Last Page
744
ISSN
1747-9991
Identifier
10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00323.x
Publisher
Wiley: 24 months
Citation
BURIK, Steven.(2010). Self and Other: Continental and Classical Chinese thought. Philosophy Compass, 5(9), 735-744.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1761
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00323.x