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BAN ZHAO AND THE QUESTION OF FEMALE PHILOSOPHY IN CHINA

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Rošker J.

Asian and African Studies

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2020

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vol. 29

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issue 2

239 – 260

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This article begins with an introduction to the general problems of women and philosophy and shows that female philosophical theorists worldwide still stand in the shadow of their male colleagues, regardless of where they live, their theoretical potential and the value of their research. Then, the article focuses upon the situation in China. The author considers and analyses some systemic problems related to the position and significance of women philosophers in the history of Chinese philosophy. The study challenges traditional views of this problem and argues that in this context we have to differentiate between classical discourses and later ideologies that openly promoted the inferior position of women in society. Through an analysis of the works of Ban Zhao (45 – 117 BCE), the first influential female thinker in Chinese intellectual history, the author also aims to expose the contradiction between dominant patriarchal conventions on the one hand and latent, often hidden criticism of gender relations in women’s writing in traditional China, on the other.

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LIBERATING POWER OF HARMONY AND ORDER: ON THE NOTIONS OF LIBERTY AND MATHEMATICAL LOGIC IN ZHANG SHENFU’S PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

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Vrhovski J.

Asian and African Studies

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2022

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vol. 31

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issue 1

183 – 213

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This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind the propagation of modern science and dialectical materialism in Republican China (1911 – 1949). In particular, it focuses on the notions of liberty, mathematical logic and humaneness (ren 仁) in his writings in the period between the year of the May Fourth events (1919) and the late 1930s. The main aim of the analysis is to cast some light on the common conceptual and methodological features which underlay these interpretations, in order to reveal the essentially Chinese cultural “perception” or traditional worldview that served Zhang as the prism through which he viewed and understood the nature of and the relationships between all these “novel” concepts from the West. Consequently, an important aim of this paper will be to highlight a specific fragment of the intellectual mechanism that conditioned the so-called Chinese intellectual modernisation of the Republican period.

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FUNCTION OF THE 'NEW' CONFUCIANISM IN THE COUNTRIES OF EAST ASIA

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Slawinski R.

Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia

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2010

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issue 23

25-44

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The article analyzes the role the 'new' Confucianism plays in East Asia. There have to be defined two different trends: the 'new' Confucianism present now and the one that is ten centuries old. That is why it would be best to use 'contemporary, new Confucianism' as the term denoting the current attempts at reanimation of Confucianism in the PRC. The article presents the origin of the 'contemporary, new Confucianism', the Japanese attempts at adapting Chinese Confucianism to reinforce the imperial power in Japan, and criticism of Confucianism undertaken by Chinese intellectuals in the first two decades of the 20th century under the influence of Western philosophy. Then, it concentrates on reconstruction of various realms of traditional Chinese culture (with special focus on Confucian ethics in Taiwan after 1950), and attempts at applying Confucianism in Southeast Asia in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Finally, it sums up Chinese philosopher's, Wang Deyou, thoughts on contemporary Confucianism as well as contemporary discussion about its cardinal questions.

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BAN ZHAO AND THE QUESTION OF FEMALE PHILOSOPHY IN CHINA

LIBERATING POWER OF HARMONY AND ORDER: ON THE NOTIONS OF LIBERTY AND MATHEMATICAL LOGIC IN ZHANG SHENFU’S PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

FUNCTION OF THE 'NEW' CONFUCIANISM IN THE COUNTRIES OF EAST ASIA