Roger T. Ames Quotes on Knowledge
Roger T. Ames is the principal contemporary American interpreter of Confucian philosophy as a comparative philosophical resource rather than as the object of historical scholarship alone. The collaborative translations and interpretations with David Hall — Thinking through Confucius, Anticipating China, Thinking from the Han, Focusing the Familiar — argue for the irreducibility of the classical Chinese philosophical vocabulary to the substance ontology and individualist anthropology Ames identifies as the dominant framework of Western philosophical translation. The constructive position is the recovery of a process-relational Confucian framework — focus and field, ars contextualis, the relational person — as a contemporary alternative to the substance-individualist framework of mainstream Western philosophy.
Quotes
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Attributed to Roger T. Ames:
“To translate is to think with another tradition, not to bring it home.”
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Attributed to Roger T. Ames:
“The Chinese tradition is not an exotic alternative to Western philosophy; it is one of the standpoints from which philosophy itself may be reviewed.”
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