Abstract

We have been invited to contribute a short assessment of Levine's response to Siderits’ position in the emerging debate between fusion and comparative philosophy. Perhaps a brief word is in order regarding our backgrounds: Michael Nylan is a student of early China, with strong inter-disciplinary training and interests, who has attempted work in both philosophy and translation. Martin Verhoeven is a historian by training, a translator by avocation, and a Buddhist practitioner. Both of us have committed ourselves for decades to past traditions that can only be accessed through classical Chinese language, and that surely colors our views. At the same time, those views are not identical, but stereophonic.

Highlights

  • Levine's paper begins with Siderits’ contention that fusion philosophy and its proponents have "superseded" comparative philosophy and its proponents

  • We have been invited to contribute a short assessment of Levine's response to Siderits’ position in the emerging debate between "fusion philosophy" and "comparative philosophy." Perhaps a brief word is in order regarding our backgrounds: Michael Nylan is a student of early China, with strong inter-disciplinary training and interests, who has attempted work in both philosophy and translation

  • Martin Verhoeven is a historian by training, a translator by avocation, and a Buddhist practitioner

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Introduction

Levine's paper begins with Siderits’ contention that fusion philosophy and its proponents have "superseded" (i.e., outdone) comparative philosophy and its proponents.

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