Chinese Philosophy: A Guide to Personal Excellence and Social Harmony

Cover: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 106

ISBN: 9788194622147

Languages: English
about this book

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.

About the Author

Dr R. Lekshmi is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala. She has a good number of research articles published to her credit including a book on Humanism of Vivekananda and an edited work on the Philosophical Perspectives of Hermeneutics. She has produced several PhD's and currently she is undertaking a research project sponsored by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi.