Two Questions
Journal
Metaphor and Analogy in Chinese Thought
Start Page
265
End Page
272
ISBN
0197757677
9780197757673
9780197757703
Date Issued
2025-09-23
Author(s)
Abstract
This commentary addresses David Wong’s Lectures 3 and 4. One comment is about the relation between beauty and morality. David Wong emphasizes the connections, and he deplores that these have been lost in our modern times. But this commentary points out that there are also differences, and that these can already be found in early times. Explaining connections and differences requires a theory. Kant offered one, which is progress that Wong underestimates. The second comment is about David Wong’s emphasis of extending one’s feeling from one’s family to others, the outside world, society, and nature. The commentary points out that the idea of extending one’s feeling by itself can also go wrong. If one has negative feelings for one’s family members, the idea of extending such feelings is not good. Instead, rational reflection can be helpful. In summary, the commentary points out shortcomings in conceptualization and argument in David Wong’s accounts that go together with what seem to be overidealizations of the past. © 2025 Oxford University Press.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Type
book-chapter