Reading with understanding: Interpretive method in Chinese philosophy
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 4 (2):341-346 (2005)
| Abstract | Sinologists tend toward self-descriptions of their methodology that suggests that they read ancient Chinese Philosophy texts and then interpret them as separate steps. The "reading" is what training in the language is supposed to enable and interpreters who are skeptical of traditional readings (e.g. the present author) can be portrayed as people who have not learned (or not learned properly) how to read. I argue here that reading in its natural sense in this context presupposes understanding, that is, a theory of meaning. The theory requires justification and that the best framework for a justification theory is radical translation using the principle of humanity as the guide for selecting from among translation manuals. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,672 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesLeo K. C. Cheung (2008). The Disenchantment of Nonsense: Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Philosophical Investigations 31 (3):197–226.
Lon Becker (2004). That Von Neumann Did Not Believe in a Physical Collapse. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (1):121-135.
Chenshan Tian (2002). Tongbian in the Chinese Reading of Dialectical Materialism. Philosophy East and West 52 (1):126-144.
Ian Cook (1998). Reading Mill: Studies in Political Theory. St. Martin's Press.
Allen Michael Scult (2004). Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger: An Ontological Encounter. Fordham University Press.
Brian Massumi (2010). What Concepts Do: Preface to the Chinese Translation of A Thousand Plateaus. Deleuze Studies 4 (1):1-15.
Mark Sprevak (2005). The Chinese Carnival. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36 (1):203-209.
Chad Hansen (1992). A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation. Oxford University Press.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2010-08-10Total downloads9 ( #114,013 of 549,068 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,185 of 549,068 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
