TY - BOOK ID - 126979125 TI - Expanding process : exploring philosophical and theological transformations in China and the West PY - 2009 SN - 9780791475164 0791475166 PB - New York: State university of New York press, DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:126979125 AB - Expanding Process explores how comparative philosophy expands our understanding of the critical themes of process, change, and transformation. John H. Berthrong examines how notions of process manifest and shape the classical Confucianism of Xunzi, the early medieval Daosim of the Liezi, and Zhu Xi's Song Dynasty daoxue (Teaching of The Way). Berthrong links these various Chinese views of process and transformation to contemporary debates in the American process, pragmatic, and naturalist philosophical movements. Stressing how our pluralistic world calls for comparing and even appropriating insights from diverse cultural traditions, Berthrong contends that comparative philosophy and theology can broaden the intellectual frontiers and foundations of any serious student of contemporary global thought. "This is one of the best examples of comparative philosophy that I have seen in a very long time. It is an eminently readable exposition that puts Chinese philosophy into a global and contemporaneously relevant context, while also deftly drawing on the very best scholarship on the history of Chinese thought and American philosophy." -- Judith A. Berling, author of Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education. ER -