Sheng-Sheng (生生) as Being-Between-Generations: On the Existential Structure of Confucian Ethics
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Sun Xiangcheng
Abstract
On the level of existential structure, “Shengsheng Buxi” unfolds an existential structure different from Heidegger’s “being-in-the-world”. This paper calls it “being-between-the-generations”. Through this existential structure, it reveals many aspects which Heidegger ignored in his existential analysis. The existence of “I” between generations is, first of all, a conjunction of generations, “this body” has its own origin. Its original facing the Other is to love his/her parents, and showing the structure of “being-together-with-the-generations” in filial piety; family implements the existence of “inheritance”, thus gaining its ontological status in this structure. The state of mood in generations shows the “Enjoyment-at-home” of this-body; at the same time, being-between-the-generations also makes “learning” and “teaching” indispensable and essential moments in the existential structure, and makes the “Project” of “trans-generations” possible. The “historicity” formed by “generations” has an impact on this. Ultimately, in the memorial ceremony of “death of parents and ancestors”, it builds the structure of “being-together-with-the-generations” within a family, and maintains the dimension of transcendence, in the way of filial piety, whose nature is revealed in The Analects as “Tribute to the death of parents and keeping memory of ancestors” (慎終追遠).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Vorwort des Herausgebers
- An Exercise in Global Philosophy
- I: Global Justice – 全球正义
- A Vindication of Distributive Justice
- Principles of Justice in a Changing World Order
- Global Justice: A Utopia and Concern of Humanitarianism
- On the Justifications of Contemporary Global Justice Theories
- Political Reconciliation in Light of Global Injustices
- The Interdependence of Domestic and Global Justice
- Kant on Structural Domination and Global Justice
- The Ethical Constraint on War
- II: Global Philosophy – 全球哲学
- Sheng-Sheng (生生) as Being-Between-Generations: On the Existential Structure of Confucian Ethics
- The Openness of Life-world and the Intercultural Polylogue
- How to Justify Principles of Justice
- Universalism vs. “All Under Heaven” (Tianxia / 天下) – Kant in China
- Three Types of Cosmopolitanism? Liberalism, Democracy, and Tian-xia
- III: Global Justice and Progress – 全球正义与进步
- Rethinking Progress Today
- Progress and Human Rights Justice as Evaluating Criteria for Global Developments
- Justice in Anthropocentrism. An Attitude Towards Contemporary Human Beings and Their Intellectual Crisis
- Towards a Transcultural Concept of Justice Based on Self-respect
- Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
- Moral Progress: Between Justification and Innovation
- Forms of Injustice and Regression
- Compulsive Growth and the Dynamics of “Perverted Progress”
- IV: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾萃
- Subjekt und Person: Zwei Selbst-Bilder des modernen Menschen in kulturübergreifender Perspektive
- Heideggerian Existence after Being and Time: In the Nameless ─ and a Brief Comparison of Namelessness and the Underlying Philosophy of Language between Heideggerian and Buddhist Perspectives
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Vorwort des Herausgebers
- An Exercise in Global Philosophy
- I: Global Justice – 全球正义
- A Vindication of Distributive Justice
- Principles of Justice in a Changing World Order
- Global Justice: A Utopia and Concern of Humanitarianism
- On the Justifications of Contemporary Global Justice Theories
- Political Reconciliation in Light of Global Injustices
- The Interdependence of Domestic and Global Justice
- Kant on Structural Domination and Global Justice
- The Ethical Constraint on War
- II: Global Philosophy – 全球哲学
- Sheng-Sheng (生生) as Being-Between-Generations: On the Existential Structure of Confucian Ethics
- The Openness of Life-world and the Intercultural Polylogue
- How to Justify Principles of Justice
- Universalism vs. “All Under Heaven” (Tianxia / 天下) – Kant in China
- Three Types of Cosmopolitanism? Liberalism, Democracy, and Tian-xia
- III: Global Justice and Progress – 全球正义与进步
- Rethinking Progress Today
- Progress and Human Rights Justice as Evaluating Criteria for Global Developments
- Justice in Anthropocentrism. An Attitude Towards Contemporary Human Beings and Their Intellectual Crisis
- Towards a Transcultural Concept of Justice Based on Self-respect
- Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue Politics
- Moral Progress: Between Justification and Innovation
- Forms of Injustice and Regression
- Compulsive Growth and the Dynamics of “Perverted Progress”
- IV: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾萃
- Subjekt und Person: Zwei Selbst-Bilder des modernen Menschen in kulturübergreifender Perspektive
- Heideggerian Existence after Being and Time: In the Nameless ─ and a Brief Comparison of Namelessness and the Underlying Philosophy of Language between Heideggerian and Buddhist Perspectives
