Sebastien Billioud, Thinking through Confucian Modernity. A Study of Mou Zongsan＇s Moral Metaphysics.

作     者：Roberto Villasante 

作者机构：Pontifical University of Salamanca 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Philosophy in China》 (中国哲学前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第8卷第2期

页      面：362-366页

学科分类：01[哲学] 0101[哲学-哲学] 010102[哲学-中国哲学] 010108[哲学-科学技术哲学] 

摘      要：Billioud＇s Thinking through Confucian Modernity： A Study of Mou Zongsan＇s Moral Metaphysics immerses the reader in the thought of Chinese contemporary philosopher Mou Zongsan. Mou is a philosopher of some note, and Billioud＇s approach to his thought is definitely worth consideration. Mou is a philosopher who tries to bridge Western and Chinese philosophies while keeping a clear eye on the differences between them. He is not the kind of philosopher influenced by Western modernity who would apostatize Chinese tradition, nor is he the kind of philosopher who would feel threatened by Western culture and thus idealize and fervently defend Chinese culture in an attempt to preserve it. Instead, Mou has initiated a profound dialogue between these traditions, focusing on two highly prominent philosophers： Kant and Confucius. This is an enormous task, which Mou approaches as a true philosopher. In his work, he has sown the seeds for a future generation whose task ahead will be to deal even more thoroughly, and existentially, with alterity--in this case the Western world--and what it means to be Chinese.