Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding: Toward a New by Kwok-Ying Lau

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This e-book methods the subject of intercultural realizing in philosophy from a phenomenological viewpoint. It presents a bridge among Western and japanese philosophy via in-depth dialogue of thoughts and doctrines of phenomenology and historical and modern chinese language philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are supplied: the reader will discover a examine of theoretical and methodological matters and cutting edge readings of conventional chinese language and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological point of view. the writer makes use of a descriptive rigor to prevent cultural prejudices and offers a non-Eurocentric belief and perform of philosophy. via this East-West comparative learn, a compelling feedback of a Eurocentric notion of philosophy emerges. New thoughts and techniques in intercultural philosophy are proposed via those chapters. Researchers, academics, post-graduates and scholars of philosophy will all locate this paintings fascinating, and people with an curiosity in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will locate it really enticing.

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13 Only the kind of scientific culture developed in Europe since the time of Galileo has the exclusive right to call itself philosophy. This definition of the nature of genuine philosophy as the exclusive search for pure thêoria proceeds by a double exclusion: exclusion of the possibility by cultures other than that in Europe to re-appropriate the ancient Greek philosophical tradition in ways other than the modern-scientific one. 14 This double exclusion contributes greatly to the forgery of a double myth Schuhmann gives even a stronger reading than the one we propose with regard to Husserl’s conception of philosophy as essentially European in nature: “Husserl does not intend to underestimate the importance, validity and greatness of the results … of non-European philosophy… But when measured by the absolute yardstick of philosophy as a rigorous science, all these undertakings sink into insignificance.

This phenomenological reading of the Daodejing is meant to highlight the non-anthropocentric nature and the critical potential of Laozi’s philosophical Daoism. 1 A first version of this chapter was presented to “Phenomenology As a Bridge Between Asia and the West”, International Conference on Phenomenology organized by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Florida Atlantic University, May 7–10, 2002, Delray Beach, Florida. -Y. 1 3 Phenomenological Reading of Laozi Contrasting Attitudes in the Western Representation of Chinese Philosophy Daoist Philosophy as Anti-rationalism At a time of multiculturalism, a politically correct attitude toward the problem of philosophical pluralism will admit readily that there are as many possible types of philosophies as there are types of culture.

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