CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES III, ASIA, VOLUME 15

  

 

CIVIL SOCIETY in a CHINESE CONTEXT  

 

CHINESE PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, VII

 

 

edited by

Wang Miaoyang

Yu Xianmeng

Manuel B. Dy

 

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

PART I. CIVIL SOCIETY AS THE CULTURAL EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE

1. The Aesthetic as the New Space for Civil Society

by George F. McLean

2. G.B. Vico and the Contemporary Civil World

by Lu Xiaohe

3. Non-indifference within Difference: Emmanuel Levinas on the Sociality of the Face-to-Face Relation

by Angelli F. Tugado

4. Gadamer, Tradition and Dialogue

by Antonette Palma-Angeles

5. Science, Civil Society and Metaphysics

 by Zhou Changzhong

PART II. SOME PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES FOR  CIVIL SOCIETY

6. On the Social Development and Improvement of the Moral Quality of City-dwellers

by Wang Miaoyang

7. Marcel’s Phenomenology of Tolerance and Civil Society

by Manuel B. Dy, Jr.

8. Buddhism and Democracy

by Kirti Bunchua

9. Confucian Ritual (Li) and Civil Society

by He Xirong

10. Collective Identity and Civil Society

 by He Xirong

11. Metaphysics and Practical Life

by Yu Xuanmeng

PART III. STRUCTURES OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN A CHANGING WORLD

 

12. Seeking Harmony in Authority: The Reason and Values Necessary for Civil Society

by Richard A. Graham

13. The Structure of Civil Society: Hannah Arendt on Revolution, Freedom and the Council System

by Nemesio S. Que

14. Global Order, Local Cultures and Civil Societies: Principles for a New Understanding of Development

by Heinz Holley

15. Civil Society and the Principle of Solidarity

by Rainier A. Ibana

16. The Role of Corporate Ethics in a Market Economy and  Civil Society

 by Georges Enderle