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A Political World Philosophy in terms of All-under-heaven (Tian-xia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Zhao Tingyang
Zhao Tingyang*
Affiliation:
Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Abstract

This paper presents an overall view of the Philosophy of Tian-xia, a particular form of neo-universalism developed by its author and very much debated in the last years. The system of Tian-xia, or ‘all-under-heaven’, is a philosophical re-elaboration of an ancient form of Chinese universalism. The world is constituted as a global unity and a basic concept of political philosophy. It aims at a world institution as a way to rethink all problems in the world as problems of the world. Zhao Tingyang has analytically developed this view in some recent publications in Chinese. This article represents the most recent attempt to provide a synthetic view of his philosophy of ‘all-under-heaven’.

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Diogenes , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 5 - 18
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Copyright © ICPHS 2009

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