CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES III. ASIA, VOLUME 11

 

THE HUMANIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND

CHINESE CULTURE

 

CHINESE PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, XI

 

Edited by

Tomonobu Imamichi

Wang Miaoyang

Liu Fangtong

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

PART I. THE AND CHALLENGE OF TECHNOLOGY

 

Chapter I. Technology and Collective Identity: Issues of an Eco-ethica

Tomonobu Imamichi

 

Chapter II. Heidegger on Technology, Alienation and Destiny

Yu Xuanmeng

 

Chapter III. Self-transcendence and Morality: Human Creativity in the Thought of Nietzsche and Confucius

Lik Kuen Tong

 

Chapter IV. Nietzsche’s Superman: Toward a Transformation of Values

Wang Xinsheng

 

Chapter V. Moral Predicament and Reconstruction in Contemporary China: A Comment on Pragmatism as a Moral Theory and Its Influence in China

Liu Fangtong

 

Chapter VI. Ethical Reflections on Western Science and Technology in the Philosophy of Modern China

Zhou Changzhong

 

Chapter VII. Development of Technology and Social Life

Wang Miaoyang

 

PART II. FROM OBJECTIVITY TO SUBJECTIVITY: THE HUMANIZATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

Chapter VIII. The Change in Modern Scientific Thought and the Conception of Values

Li Jizong

 

Chapter IX. Confucianism and Science --A Philosophical Evaluation

Vincent Shen

 

Chapter X. The Humanization of Technology in Ancient China: A Study of the "Meng Xi Notes"

Cheng Chaonan

 

Chapter XI. The Development of Biotechnology and the Future of Human Civilization

Fu Jizhong

 

Chapter XII. Cultural Diversity and a Path Toward Wisdom: Perspectives of Gabriel Marcel

K.R. Hanley

 

Chapter XIII. Science and the Moral Life: A Philosophy of Moral Education

Richard A. Graham

 

Chapter XIV. The Ethics of Communicative Action Habermas’s Discourse Ethics

Manuel B. Dy

 

Chapter XV. The Philosophy of Value, the Value of Philosophy

Manuel B. Dy

 

PART III. ASIAN VALUES AND TECHNOLOGY: HUMANIZING THE MODERNIZATION OF CHINA

 

Chapter XVI. Confucian Harmony and Technical Progress: Suggestions from Kant

George F. McLean

 

Chapter XVII. Eco-aesthetica

Noriko Hashimoto

 

Chapter XVIII. The Conflict of Values: The Contemporary Transformation of Values in China

Chen Genfa

 

Chapter XIX. Zhuang Zi’s Perfect Joy: An Answer to the Contemporary Predicament?

Manuel B. Dy

 

Chapter XX. The Chinese View of Time, a Passage to Eternity

Manuel B. Dy

 

Chapter XXI. Education in Values and Spiritual Enlightenment

Shi Zhonglian

 

Chapter XXII. The Character of Japanese Thought

Tomonobu Imamichi

 

Note to Chapter XXII. Technical Creativity and Japanese Literary Culture

Takehiko Kenmochi

 

Chapter XXIII. The Structure of Oriental Values and Education

Yamamoto Yasuo

 

Chapter XXIV. Creativity as Synthesis of Contrasting Wisdoms: An Interpretation of Chinese Philosophy in Taiwan since 1949

Vincent Shen

 

Chapter XXV. Transcendence and Progress

Thadeusz Zasepa

 



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