A. C. Graham Quotes on Knowledge
A. C. Graham (1919–1991), the British sinologist whose Disputers of the Tao (1989) gave the late twentieth century its most rigorous synthetic account of the philosophical schools of the classical Chinese period, also produced the standard analytic translation of the inner chapters of the Zhuangzi (1981) and the Two Chinese Philosophers (1958) monograph on Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi. The framework presses the case that classical Chinese thought is best read on its own terms but with the methodological resources of analytic philosophy of language and logic — neither domesticated into the categories of Western metaphysics nor essentialized as an inscrutable Other.
Quotes
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Attributed to A. C. Graham:
“Chinese philosophy disputed the Way as fiercely as European philosophy disputed reason.”
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Attributed to A. C. Graham:
“The later Mohists were rigorous logicians; we are still catching up with them.”
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Attributed to A. C. Graham:
“To translate is to think the original anew, in another mind.”
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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