Gongsheng Across Contexts

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors




Part I: Introduction

1.       What Intellectual Shift Do We Need in a Time of Planetary Risks? Inspirations from Symbiosis in Life Sciences and the Notion of Gongsheng/Ky¿sei

Bing Song

2.      The Re-engineering of Gongsheng: On the Methodology of this Volume and its Philosophical Implications

Yiwen Zhan

Part II: Gongsheng/Ky¿sei in Classical Philosophies

3.    Introduction on the Ethical "Doctrine of Gongsheng" based on Song-Ming Confucianism's "Unity of Consummate Persons and Things"

Genyou Wu

 4.      The Concept of Gongsheng in Daoist Philosophy: Examples from Laozi and Zhuangzi

Jun Gong

 5.      "If Humans are Free of Disease, then Tian is Free of Disease" - Ecological Civilization and the Daoist Concept of Gongsheng

Xia Chen

 6.      Co-dependent Origination and the Doctrine of Gongsheng: A Buddhist Perspective on The Harmony of Humanity, Nature, and Civilizations

Jun Gong

 7.      The Gap of Wen and the Edge of Chaos: From the Conundrum of Ky¿sei to the "Cosmic Hope"

Tsuyoshi Ishii




Part III: Gongsheng in Contemporary Contexts

8.      How to Understand Symbiosis? - The Conflict and Integration of Two Pictures of Life

Shijian Yang

 9.      The Microbiome is Redefining What it Means to be Human

Liping Zhao

10.  Gongsheng in Ecological Anthropology

Weijia Zhou, Jun He







11.  Yaoshi Tongyuan: The Symbiotic Practice in Traditional Medicines

Lili Lai, Judith Farquhar

 12.  The Gongsheng School of International Relations: China's ExperienceXiao Ren

 

Part IV: Resonance

13.  Origins and Theoretical Foundations of Convivialism

Alain Caillé

 14.  Ontology, Conviviality and Symbiosis or: Are there Gifts of Nature?

Frank Adloff  

Index

Bing Song is a Senior Vice President of the Berggruen Institute and Director of the Institute's China Center. She has been leading projects under the research theme of Frontier Science & Technology and East Asian Philosophies and edited Intelligence and Wisdom: Artificial Intelligence Meets Chinese Philosophers (CITIC Press 2020, Springer 2021).

 

Yiwen Zhan is Lecturer at Beijing Normal University. He mainly works in metaphysics and epistemology. Recently, he is interested in exploring the question-sensitive structures in epistemology, decision theory, and how it might affect our understanding of modality and existence.