Phenomenology of Life in a Dialogue Between Chinese and Occidental Philosophy

Abstract

I Spontaneity Of Life, Individualization, Beingness.- Harmony in Becoming: The Spontaneity of Life and Self-Individualization.- Toward a More Comprehensive Concept of life.- Confucian Methodology and Understanding the Human Person.- Heidegger's Quest for the Essence of Man.- A Comparative Study of Lao-tzu and Husserl: A Methodological Approach.- II Human Faculties of Life.- Mind and Consciousness in Chinese Philosophy: A Historical Survey.- Transcendental Consciousness in Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology.- Life-world and Reason in Husserl's Philosophy of Life.- Consciousness and Body in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: Some Remarks Concerning Flesh, Vision, and World in the Late Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.- Language, Consciousness, and Mind in Neo-Confucian Philosophy: The Crossbow Pellet.- Conscience and Life: The Role of Freedom in Heidegger's Conception of Conscience.- III Life, Morality and Inwardness.- A Reevaluation of Confucius.- Conscience, Morality and Creativity.- Confucian Moral Metaphysics and Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology.- The Concept of Tao: A Hermeneutical Perspective.- Phenomenology in T'ien-t'ai and Hua-yen Buddhism.- Chinese Buddhism as an Existential Phenomenology.- A Critical Reflection on the Methods of Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and the Idea of Contextualization in Religious and Theological Studies.- IV The Locus of Art In Life.- The Tenets of Roman Ingarden's Aesthetics in a Philosophical Perspective.- The Literary Work and Its Concretization in Roman Ingarden's Aesthetics.- The Writer as Shaman.- A Glimpse of the Fundamental Nature of Japanese Art.- A Phenomenological Perspective of Theodore Roethke's Poetry.- Virginia Woolf's Theory of Reception.- The Aesthetic Interpretation of life in The Tale of Genji.- Index Of Names.