An Overall-Complementarity-Seeking Account that Includes and Transcends Harmonious-Complementarity-Seeking Perspective: A Commentary on Chenyang Li’s Confucian Harmony-Seeking Account / Postscript
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, I have two related purposes in the context of this "constructiveengagement dialogue" section: first, I will present a further expanded version of my previously suggested and explained "overall-complementarity-seeking" account on the methodological issue of how to adequately look at (the tensions and conflicts of) contraries (including both non-mental contraries in the natural world and mental ideological contraries in the human society as part of the inclusive natural world); second, I will give a commentary on the methodological portion of Chenyang Li's Confucian account of seeking harmony.These two purposes are related in this context to this extent.On the one hand, examining Li's harmony-seeking methodological approach will provide a valuable opportunity for my critical reflection, and thus giving a more refined elaboration, on my own account which includes some new contents that have yet to be published before.On the other hand, for an effective presentation and explanation of my commentary on Li's harmony-seeking methodological approach to the issue of how to look at contraries, and with consideration that my commentary is not piece-meal and tactic on individual "trees" but more strategic and holistic on "forest" regarding the addressed methodological issue of how to look at contraries, giving my positive account as a whole will provide a due background and holistic explanatory basis on which to present and explain my commentary.In this way, my strategy is this.In section 1, I present and explain an expanded version of my previously suggested overall-complementarity-seeking account of how
Author: Bo MOU
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4289529587