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  title info:
    title: Adapting
    sub title: a Chinese philosophy of action
  name:
    name part: Valmisa, Mercedes
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages).
  abstract: "Philosophy of action in the context of Classical China is radically different from its counterpart in the contemporary Western philosophical narrative. Classical Chinese philosophers began from the assumption that relations are primary to the constitution of the person, hence acting in the early Chinese context necessarily is interacting and co-acting along with others -human and nonhuman actors. This book is the first monograph dedicated to the exploration and rigorous reconstruction of an extraordinary strategy for efficacious relational action devised by Classical Chinese philosophers in order to account for the interdependent and embedded character of human agency -what the author has denominated "adapting" or "adaptive agency" (yin). As opposed to more unilateral approaches to action also conceptualized in the Classical Chinese corpus, such as forceful and prescriptive agency, adapting requires great capacity of self and other-awareness, equanimity, flexibility, creativity, and response, which allows the agent to co-raise courses of action ad-hoc: unique and temporary solutions to specific, non-permanent, and non-generalizable life problems. Adapting is one of the world's oldest philosophies of action, and yet it is shockingly new for contemporary audiences, who will find in it an unlikely source of inspiration to deal with our current global problems. This book explores the core conception of adapting both on autochthonous terms and by cross-cultural comparison, drawing on the European and Analytic philosophical traditions as well as on scholarship from other disciplines, opening a brand-new topic in Chinese and comparative philosophy"--
  note: Mercedes Valmisa.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Act (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Agent (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Chinese
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Comparative
  subject:
    topic: Action (Philosophie)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie chinoise
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie comparée
  subject:
    topic: Eastern
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Free Will & Determinism
  subject:
    topic: Act (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Agent (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Chinese
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Comparative
  classification: B105.A35 V35 2021
  classification: 128/.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Adapting
    name:
      name part: Valmisa, Mercedes.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2021]
    identifier: (DLC) 2021008682
    identifier: (OCoLC)1225623008
  identifier: 0197572979
  identifier: 9780197572986
  identifier: 0197572987
  identifier: 9780197572993
  identifier: 0197572995
  identifier: 9780197572979
  identifier: 9780197572962
  identifier: 2021008683
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210224
    record change date: 20260319184133.2
    record identifier: in00005720468
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng