{"id":3908,"date":"2021-12-11T03:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/?page_id=3908"},"modified":"2021-12-16T03:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:04:04","slug":"keynote-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/keynote-speech-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"is-layout-flex wp-container-1 wp-block-columns\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-layout-flex wp-container-3 wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-column\">\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Dialectics\u00a0in Chinese Philosophy:\u00a0The\u00a0Case\u00a0of\u00a0*<em>M\u00ecng\u00a0x\u00f9n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>&nbsp;Dirk Meyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper looks at the way a philosophical argument is developed in&nbsp;*<em>M\u00ecng<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>x\u00f9n<\/em>, a recently obtained, fourth century manuscript text from the Tsinghua collection of&nbsp;Ch\u01d4&nbsp;Warring States texts. The text has a close counterpart in the&nbsp;<em>Y\u00ec<\/em><em><\/em><em>Zh\u014dush\u016b<\/em>, which classes it as an utterance in the tradition of&nbsp;Sh\u016b&nbsp;(<em>Documents<\/em>). I analyse the strategies with which meaning is produced in *<em>M\u00ecng<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>x\u00f9n<\/em>&nbsp;and suggest that the text is articulated in a dialectic manner in which the philosophical premise seeks to test itself continuously to avoid becoming doctrine, and thus philosophically void. My choice of a&nbsp;Sh\u016btext as an example of philosophically relevant meaning construction in early China challenges current methodology, which anachronistically considers&nbsp;<em>z\u01d0<\/em>-type literature (the Masters) as a disciplinary equivalent to Philosophy in ancient Greece. I argue that since philosophically relevant activities are a non-disciplinary praxis in early China, the articulations of this praxis are also not genre specific but found across the foundational literary texts of China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0Dialectics\u00a0in Chinese Philosophy:\u00a0The\u00a0Case\u00a0of\u00a0*M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3908\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsinghualogic.net\/JRC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}