Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy (English and German Edition)

Authors from all over the world unite in an effort to cultivate dialogue between Asian and Western philosophy. The papers forge a new, East-West comparative path on the whole range of issues in Kant studies. The concept of personhood, crucial for both traditions, serves as a springboard to address issues such as knowledge acquisition and education, ethics and self-identity, religious/political community building, and cross-cultural understanding. Edited by Stephen Palmquist, founder of the Hong Kong Philosophy Café and well known for both his Kant expertise and his devotion to fostering philosophical dialogue, the book presents selected and reworked papers from the first ever Kant Congress in Hong Kong, held in May 2009. Among others the contributors are Patricia Kitcher (New York City, USA), Günther Wohlfahrt (Wuppertal, Germany), Cheng Chung-ying (Hawaii, USA), Sammy Xie Xia-ling (Shanghai, China), Lau Chong-fuk (Hong Kong), Anita Ho (Vancouver/Kelowna, Canada), Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong), Pong Wen-berng (Taipei, Taiwan), Simon Xie Shengjian (Melbourne, Australia), Makoto Suzuki (Aichi, Japan), Kiyoshi Himi (Mie, Japan), Park Chan-Goo (Seoul, South Korea), Chong Chaeh-yun (Seoul, South Korea), Mohammad Raayat Jahromi (Tehran, Iran), Mohsen Abhari Javadi (Qom, Iran), Soraj Hongladarom (Bangkok, Thailand), Ruchira Majumdar (Kolkata, India), A.T. Nuyen (Singapore), Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong), Christian Wenzel (Taipei, Taiwan), Mario Wenning (Macau). Compares Eastern and Western Philosophy Addresses concepts crucial for both traditions Major scholars from both sides (among them Chung-ying Chen, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy)  Frontmatter Contents Editor’s Introduction Keynote Essay to Book One Keynote Essay to Book Two Keynote Essay to Book Three 1. Self-Cognition in Transcendental Philosophy 2. A Neglected Proposition of Identity 3. Kant and the Reality of Time 4. The Active Role of the Self in Kant’s First Analogy 5. Kant’s Attack on Leibniz’s and Locke’s Amphibolies 6. The First Paralogism, its Origin, and its Evolution: Kant on How the Soul Both Is and Is Not a Substance 7. Kants Logik des Menschen – Duplizität der Subjektivität 8. Antinomy of Identity 9. Kant’s Critical Concept of a Person: The Noumenal Sphere Grounding the Principle of Spirituality 10. Truth, Falsehood and Dialectical Illusion: Kant’s Imagination 11. Persons as Causes in Kant 12. The Cognitive Dimension of Freedom as Autonomy 13. Respect for Persons as the Unifying Moral Ideal 14. Kant and Virtuous Action: A Case of Humanity 15. Freedom and Value in Kant’s Practical Philosophy 16. Moral Individuality and Moral Subjectivity in Leibniz, Crusius, and Kant 17. Aesthetic Judgment and the Unity of Reason 18. Thinking with Instruments: The Example of Kant’s Compass 19. Common Sense and Community in Kant’s Theory of Taste 20. Aesthetics and Morality in Kant and Confucius: A Second Step 21. China, Nature, and the Sublime in Kant 22. Is There a Kantian Perspective on Human Embryonic Stem Cells? 23. When Is a Person a Person – When Does the “Person” Begin? 24. Personhood and Assisted Death 25. Human Dignity and the Innate Right to Freedom in National and International Law 26. “Irgend ein Vertrauen ... muss ... übrig bleiben”: The Idea of Trust in Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy 27. Autocracy: Kant on the Psycho-Politics of Self-Rule 28. Die Person als gesetzgebendes Wesen 29. Kant’s Realm of Ends: A Communal Moral Practice as Locus for the Unity of Moral Personhood 30. Kant’s Notion of Perfectibility: A Condition of World-Citizenship 31. Person and Character in Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View 32. Kant and the Possibility of the Religious Citizen 33. Autonomy and the Unity of the Person 34. Religious Fictionalism in Kant’s Ethics of Autonomy 35. Respect for Persons as Respect for the Moral Law: Nicolai Hartmann’s Reinterpretation of Kant 36. The Unity of Human Personhood and the Problem of Evil 37. How To Be a Good Person Who Does Bad Things 38. Kant’s Idea of Autonomy as the Basis for Schelling’s Theology of Freedom 39. Moral Theology or Theological Morality? 40. Self-Knowledge and God in the Philosophy of Kant and Wittgenstein 41. Kant’s Philosophy of Religion as the Basis for Albert Schweitzer’s Humanitarian Awareness 42. Kant’s Religious Perspective on the Human Person 43. Mou Zongsan’s Critique of Kant’s Theory of Self-Consciousness in the First Critique 44. Mou Zongsan and Kant on Intellectual Intuition: A Reconciliation 45. On Kant’s Duality of Human Beings 46. Mou Zongsan’s Interpretation of the Kantian Summum Bonum in Relation to Perfect Teaching (Yuanjiao 圓教) 47. Confucianism and Things-in-themselves (Noumena): Reviewing the Interpretations by Mou Zongsan and Cheng Chung-ying 48. The Kantian Good Will and the Confucian Sincere Will: The Centrality of Cheng (誠, “Sincerity”) in Chinese Thought 49. Desire and the Project of Moral Cultivation: Kant and Xunzi on the Inclinations 50. Kant and Daoism on Nothingness 51. Competing Conceptions of the Selfin Kantian and Buddhist Moral Theories 52. What Is Personhood? Kant and Huayan Buddhism 53. Kant and the Buddha on Self-Knowledge 54. Kant and Vasubandhu on the “Transcendent Self” 55. Kant’s Moral Philosophy in Relation to Indian Moral Philosophy as Depicted in Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita 56. Human Personhood at the Interface between Moral Law and Cultural Values 57. The Idea of Moral Autonomy in Kant’s Ethics and its Rejection in Islamic Literature 58. The Kantian Model: Confucianism and the Modern Divide 59. Asian Hospitality in Kant’s Cosmopolitan Law 60. Doing Good or Right? Kant’s Critique on Confucius 61. The Exclusion of Asia and Africa from the History of Philosophy: Is Kant Responsible? 62. Menschliche Autonomie als Aufgabe – der Autonomiebegriff in der Geschichtsphilosophie Kants 63. Is Kant a Western Philosopher? 64. The Unity of Architectonic Reasoningin Kant and I Ching Backmatter

Authors from all over the world unite in an effort to cultivate dialogue between Asian and Western philosophy. The papers forge a new, East-West comparative path on the whole range of issues in Kant studies. The concept of personhood, crucial for both traditions, serves as a springboard to address issues such as knowledge acquisition and education, ethics and self-identity, religious/political community building, and cross-cultural understanding. Edited by Stephen Palmquist, founder of the Hong Kong Philosophy Café and well known for both his Kant expertise and his devotion to fostering philosophical dialogue, the book presents selected and reworked papers from the first ever Kant Congress in Hong Kong, held in May 2009.

Among others the contributors are Patricia Kitcher (New York City, USA), Günther Wohlfahrt (Wuppertal, Germany), Cheng Chung-ying (Hawaii, USA), Sammy Xie Xia-ling (Shanghai, China), Lau Chong-fuk (Hong Kong), Anita Ho (Vancouver/Kelowna, Canada), Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong), Pong Wen-berng (Taipei, Taiwan), Simon Xie Shengjian (Melbourne, Australia), Makoto Suzuki (Aichi, Japan), Kiyoshi Himi (Mie, Japan), Park Chan-Goo (Seoul, South Korea), Chong Chaeh-yun (Seoul, South Korea), Mohammad Raayat Jahromi (Tehran, Iran), Mohsen Abhari Javadi (Qom, Iran), Soraj Hongladarom (Bangkok, Thailand), Ruchira Majumdar (Kolkata, India), A.T. Nuyen (Singapore), Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong), Christian Wenzel (Taipei, Taiwan), Mario Wenning (Macau).