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| | [AI summary] This article explores the complex and evolving role of Confucianism in contemporary China and its historical parallels with Japan's pre-WWII Confucian nationalism. It highlights the tensions between liberal and authoritarian interpretations of Confucianism, the influence of Japanese Confucianism on Chinese intellectuals, and the challenges faced by liberal Confucians in the face of rising authoritarianism. The piece also touches on the potential for Confucianism to be reformed to align with modern democratic values and the importance of a progressive reconstruction of Confucianism to counter authoritarian trends.
| | undsoc.org
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| | The "historical turn" in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences -- especially physics itself. (See Tom Nickles' essay "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality" in theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyfor a detailed account of this development in the philosophy of science;link.) Historian-philosophers...
| | antilogicalism.com
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| | One way to scry the future of philosophy is to look at its past. However, the history of philosophy - both as a field of academic study and in more popular literature - tends to tell a rather narrow and parochial story. This story predominantly focuses on Europe to the exclusion of almost everywhere else....
| | inkfish.fieldofscience.com
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| Hi friends, I'm very excited to share with you that Inkfish has moved to a new ocean-floor crevice. You can now find me at blogs.discov...