Chinese Philosophy: A Guide to Personal Excellence and Social Harmony

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. A Moral Propriety for Personal Excellence. 3. A Moral Propriety for Social Harmony. 4. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Chinese philosophy is highly unique in its profound sense of moral thinking. The fundamental thesis of Chinese thinking is interdependence and mutual relationships between entities, human and natural. For great thinkers like Confucius and Lao zi a human being is a relatively constituted and situated self. What is important in social living is correlative thinking and resonance, complementary approach to differences, action guiding nature of judgment and the effective appropriation of naturalness and spontaneity in the interrelations between individuals, human beings and nature. The book is a prelude to study the significance of personal excellence and social harmony embedded in Chinese philosophical tradition.