1. Oneness: A Big History Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Conventions vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Oneness: A Big History Perspective 39
7. 2. Oneness and Its Discontent: Contesting Ren in Classical Chinese Philosophy 53
8. 3. One Alone and Many 77
9. 4. Oneness, Aspects, and the Neo-Confucians 90
10. 5. One-to-One Fellow Feeling, Universal Identification and Oneness, and Group Solidarities 106
11. 6. The Relationality and the Normativity of An Ethic of Care 120
12. 7. Oneness and Narrativity: A Comparative Case Study 142
13. 8. Kant, Buddhism, and Self-Centered Vice 169
14. 9. Fractured Wholes: Corporate Agents and Their Members 192
15. 10. Religious Faith, Self-Unification, and Human Flourishing in James and Dewey 212
16. 11. The Self and the Ideal Human Being in Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions: Two Types of “Being a Valuable Person” 234
17. 12. Hallucinating Oneness: Is Oneness True or Just a Positive Metaphysical Illusion? 269
18. 13. Episodic Memory and Oneness 285
19. 14. Confucius and the Superorganism 305
20. 15. Death, Self, and Oneness in the Incomprehensible Zhuangzi 321
21. 16. Identity Fusion: The Union of Personal and Social Selves 340
22. 17. Tribalism and Universalism: Reflections and Scientific Evidence 351
23. 18. Two Notions of Empathy and Oneness 371
24. Contributors 389
25. Index 393