Certainty As a Social Metaphor The Social and Historical Production of Certainty in China and the West

Name: Certainty As a Social Metaphor The Social and Historical Production of Certainty in China and the West
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ISBN: 9780313314179

ISBN-10: 0313314179

ISBN-13: 9780313314179

Edition: 2001

Authors: Min Lin

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This volume combines philosophy, the social theory of knowledge, and historical analysis to present a comprehensive study of the idea of certainty as defined in the Western and Chinese intellectual traditions. Philosophical ideas such as certainty are the products of deeply layered socio-historical constructions. The author shows how the highly abstract idea of certainty in philosophical discourse is connected to the concrete social process from which the meaning of certainty is derived. Three different versions of certainty--in modern Western thought, in German Idealism, and in traditional Chinese philosophy--are examined in the context of a historical-comparative study of Western and…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Figures


Preface


Introduction



Certainty from Three Perspectives


Certainty from a Cognitive Perspective


Certainty from a Social Perspective


Certainty from a Historical Perspective



The Modern Western Version of Certainty


The Capitalist Mode of Production and Its Inner Contradiction


The Pattern of Modern Western Social Interaction and Its Inner Social Contradiction


Social-Ideological Requirements, and the Formation of Intersubjective Validity and the Cognitive Structure in Modern Western Society


Descartes's View of Certainty


Locke's and Empiricism's View of Certainty


Kant's View of Certainty


Logical Positivism's View of Certainty


Ordinary Language Philosophy's View of Certainty


Popper's View of Certainty and the Ideological Commitment of Popper and Analytical Philosophy


Common Ground of the Ideas of Certainty in Modern Western Philosophy



German Idealism and the Idea of Certainty in Fichte's Thought


The Social and Economic Structure of Germany in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


The Social and Political Conditions of Germany


The German Ideological Requirement


Fichte's Idea of Certainty and German Idealism



The Chinese Version of Certainty


The Chinese Mode of Production


The Structure and Pattern of Chinese Social Interaction


The Social-Ideological Scheme, Ritual System and Intersubjective Validity in Traditional Chinese Society


The Features of Chinese Philosophical Thought


The Great Unity of Man, Heaven and Earth


Functional Harmony and the Chinese Version of Certainty



Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index