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On human action and practical wisdom / by Guorong Yang ; translated by Paul J. D'Ambrosio, Sarah Flavel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Series: Modern Chinese Philosophy SerPublisher: LEIDEN ; BOSTON : BRILL, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004321786
  • 9004321780
Uniform titles:
  • Ren lei xing dong yu shi jian zhi hui. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On human action and practical wisdom.DDC classification:
  • 128/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • B105.A35
Online resources:
Contents:
Practical philosophy's perspective on action -- Reasons, causes and action -- On the weakness of will -- Shi, the background for practice --]i, shu and yun in the practice -- Practical reason principles -- Practical activities, communicative action and the rationality of -- Practical processes.
Summary: In On Human Action and Practical Wisdom , Yang Guorong offers a description of his "concrete metaphysics." This system seeks to overcome traditional metaphysical problems by providing a concrete basis - which serves as both the starting point and the final determining factor - for metaphysics. Yang gives a discussion of wisdom and practical action that begins in our everyday activities and social relationships, is extended to form universal principles, and finally refers back to actual situations for determining appropriateness. Based on his unification of ontology, epistemology and axiology, Yang thus attempts to overcome the one-sided understanding of action in modern Western philosophy, targeting in particular the excessively linguistic, logical, and abstract focus found in the American analytic tradition.
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Practical philosophy's perspective on action -- Reasons, causes and action -- On the weakness of will -- Shi, the background for practice --]i, shu and yun in the practice -- Practical reason principles -- Practical activities, communicative action and the rationality of -- Practical processes.

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In On Human Action and Practical Wisdom , Yang Guorong offers a description of his "concrete metaphysics." This system seeks to overcome traditional metaphysical problems by providing a concrete basis - which serves as both the starting point and the final determining factor - for metaphysics. Yang gives a discussion of wisdom and practical action that begins in our everyday activities and social relationships, is extended to form universal principles, and finally refers back to actual situations for determining appropriateness. Based on his unification of ontology, epistemology and axiology, Yang thus attempts to overcome the one-sided understanding of action in modern Western philosophy, targeting in particular the excessively linguistic, logical, and abstract focus found in the American analytic tradition.

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