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An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, this volume brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious practice to explore how traditional Chinese religio-environmental ethics are actually put into social practice both in China’s past and present. It also examines how Chinese religious teachings offer a wealth of resources to the environmental project of forging new ontologies for humans co-existing with other living beings. Different chapters examine how: Buddhist ontology avoids anthropocentrism, fengshui (Chinese geomancy) can help protect the landscape from economic development, popular religion organizes tree-planting, ancient dream interpretation practices avoided constructing the possessive individual subjectivity of modern consumerism, Buddhist rituals and ethics promoted compassion for animals and modern recycling, Confucian ancestor rituals and tombs have deterred industrial expansion, and also how Daoism’s potential role to deter desertification in northern China was stymied by state operations in contemporary China. A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.

S12/0213 --- S12/0214 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Ethics --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of nature --- E-books --- General ethics --- Sociology of environment --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- China

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Ecology --- Natural history --- Philosophy, Asian. --- Philosophy. --- S12/0214 --- S12/0820 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of nature --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- Philosophy, Asian --- Asian philosophy --- Oriental philosophy --- Philosophy, Oriental --- Ecophilosophy --- Philosophy --- Ecology - Philosophy. --- Natural history - Philosophy.

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"A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions--including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This collection of essays brings together the work of twenty of the world's prominent scholars of Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, Neo-Confucian, Japanese and Korean thought to illuminate fascinating philosophical conceptualizations of "nothingness" in both classical and modern Asian traditions. The unique collection offers new work from accomplished scholars and provides a coherent, panoramic view of the most significant ways that "nothingness" plays crucial roles in Asian philosophy. It includes both traditional and contemporary formulations, sometimes putting Asian traditions into dialogue with one another and sometimes with classical and modern Western thought. The result is a book of immense value for students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy"--

S12/0211 --- S12/0214 --- S12/0820 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Metaphysics --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of nature --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- Philosophy, Asian. --- Nothing (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- General. --- Nothing (Philosophy). --- PHILOSOPHY / General.

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Après avoir longtemps méconnu, et même dénigré, la pensée chinoise, l'Occident avait fini par la reconnaître et même la célébrer. Ces dernières années, un débat s'était instauré, au sujet de la spécificité chinoise, qui tendait à minimiser l'altérité de ce pays, voire même celle de sa langue et de son écriture. Cependant, les étonnants écarts entre le comportement et le raisonnement des deux cultures, occidentale et chinoise, montrent que les différences persistent malgré la forte volonté de se rapprocher, mais il faut bien reconnaître que la compréhension mutuelle ne va jamais de soi. La recherche des raisons de ces différences pousse à trouver l'origine de l'altérité non dans des causes matérielles ou économiques, mais dans l'existence d'autres formes de rationalité. Ce sont ces formes que ce livre étudie, à propos de la représentation de la nature, du temps, de la logique ou des mathématiques. Elles révèlent une Chine bien éloignée de la représentation qu'on en avait construite et, corrélativement, une Grèce bien plus singulière qu'on ne le croyait.

Logique --- Mathématiques --- Philosophie de la nature --- Philosophie des sciences --- Rationalité --- S12/0212 --- S12/0214 --- S12/0820 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Logics --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of nature --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- Philosophie --- Philosophy, Chinese --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Logic --- Mathematics

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Daoism and Environmental Philosophy explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. This book traces early Daoist depictions of practices of embodied emptying and forgetting and communicative strategies of undoing the fixations of words, things, and the embodied self. These are aspects of an ethics of embracing plainness and simplicity, nourishing the asymmetrically differentiated yet shared elemental body of life of the myriad things, and being responsively attuned in encountering and responding to things. These critical and transformative dimensions of early Daoism provide exemplary models and insights for cultivating a more expansive ecological ethos, environmental culture of nature, and progressive political ecology. This work will be of interest to students and scholars interested in philosophy, environmental ethics and philosophy, religious studies, and intellectual history.

Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy --- E-books --- S12/0213 --- S12/0214 --- S12/0500 --- S12/0510 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Ethics --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of nature --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Laozi and Taoism (incl. Daodejing) --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Other Taoists and their works --- Taoism. --- Nature --- Environmental ethics --- Taoist ethics. --- Religious aspects --- Religious aspects.