On human action and practical wisdom / by Guorong Yang ; translated by Paul J. D'Ambrosio, Sarah Flavel.

Includes index.

Practical philosophy's perspective on action -- Reasons, causes and action -- On the weakness of will -- Shi, the background for practice --]i, shu and yun in the practice -- Practical reason principles -- Practical activities, communicative action and the rationality of -- Practical processes.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

In On Human Action and Practical Wisdom , Yang Guorong offers a description of his "concrete metaphysics." This system seeks to overcome traditional metaphysical problems by providing a concrete basis - which serves as both the starting point and the final determining factor - for metaphysics. Yang gives a discussion of wisdom and practical action that begins in our everyday activities and social relationships, is extended to form universal principles, and finally refers back to actual situations for determining appropriateness. Based on his unification of ontology, epistemology and axiology, Yang thus attempts to overcome the one-sided understanding of action in modern Western philosophy, targeting in particular the excessively linguistic, logical, and abstract focus found in the American analytic tradition.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide