Texts and traditions in Chinese and comparative philosophy

• Main Author: TAN, Sor-hoon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: interpretation; methodology; Confucianism; Chinese classics; tradition; contextualism; Quentin Skinner; authorial intention; Philosophy; Theory and Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3772
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article considers Quentin Skinner's critique and methodology in his seminal essay "Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas " vis-a-vis the current methodological debates in Chinese and comparative philosophy. It surveys the different ways in which philosophers who work...