Philip J. Ivanhoe
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Philip J. Ivanhoe | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Education | Stanford University (BA, PhD) |
Occupation | Sinologist |
Employer | Georgetown University |
Children | 2 |
Philip J. Ivanhoe (born January 17, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of Chinese thought, particularly of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism.[1] He is a professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University.[2][3] Ivanhoe is perhaps best known for two claims: that Neo-Confucian philosophers such as Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming have systematically misinterpreted earlier Confucians such as Confucius himself, and Mengzi; and that Confucianism may usefully be understood as a version of virtue ethics.[citation needed]
Biography
Ivanhoe was raised in
Intellectual contributions
Ivanhoe was influenced by Nivison's suggestion that Neo-Confucians, although they were harsh critics of Buddhism, were more deeply influenced by Buddhist philosophical concepts than they realized. As a result, Neo-Confucians misinterpreted their own intellectual tradition. Ivanhoe developed Nivison's insight in great detail in his doctoral dissertation, a revised version of which was later published as a book, Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming. In this book, Ivanhoe contrasts the views of the ancient Confucian Mengzi (also known as "Mencius") with that of the Neo-Confucian Wang Yangming on several topics, including "sagehood" and "ethical cultivation," and demonstrates how the influence of Buddhist ideas on Wang leads him to mis-read Mengzi, even when he believes that he is explicating him.
Ivanhoe applied this idea more broadly in his next major book, Confucian Moral Self Cultivation. In the first edition of this book, Ivanhoe argued that Chinese philosophers can be categorized in terms of whether they use a "development," "discovery" or "re-formation" model of ethical cultivation. (Ivanhoe was one of the co-developers of this terminology, along with
Ivanhoe's influence on themes such as the virtues, ethical cultivation and human nature reflects the influence of Yearley's view that Confucianism may be understood as a form of virtue ethics. Ivanhoe has co-edited a number of anthologies of secondary essays on Chinese thought, and has published a large number of essays and articles in reference works on Confucianism,
Personal life
Ivanhoe is married and has two children, a daughter and a son.
References
- ISBN 978-0-7546-0508-9.
- ^ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ Weinberg, Justin (2020-03-30). "Ivanhoe from Sungkyunkwan to Georgetown". Daily Nous. Retrieved 2021-05-01.