Academic literature on the topic 'Roger T. Ames'

碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>中國文學系研究所<br>107<br>Roger T. Ames is a Western sinologist and philosopher who is proficient in Confucianism. In the process of cross-cultural research between Chinese and Western philosophy, Roger T. Ames tried to construct a set of cultural interpretation frameworks consistent with Confucian studies, and finally formed a set of methodology on cross-culture between Chinese and Western philosophy. In the early period of the Analects of Confucius in the process of spreading to the West, the translation of "Christianization" caused a serious misinterpretation and misinterpretation of Confucius&apos;&apos; thoughts in the Western world. In order to change this situation, Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont Jr. re-translated the Analects of Confucius. Translation is the first step for Roger T. Ames to reconstruct the Confucian ethics of the pre-Qin period. Through the philosophical translation of the Analects of Confucius, he highlights the "philosophical connotation" of Confucianism, eliminates the stereotypes under the hegemony of Western cultural centralism, and introduces the world to the truth of the text. Confucius thought. The pre-Qin Confucianism understood by Roger T. Ames tries to highlight the interpersonal ethical significance of the primitive concepts such as authoritativeness /observing ritual propriety /appropriate/tian in Confucius&apos;&apos;s thought. For the translation of these Confucian core terms, Roger T. Ames is very cautious, closely follows the text, studies from the source and semantics, criticizes many of the original inappropriate translations, and tries to find suitable “word(s)”/ concept-group to translate some key concepts in the Western world. In the context of the pre-Qin ethics constructed by Roger T. Ames, he emphasized the relationship of Confucian society, highlighting the non-transcendental cosmology of ancient China, which is completely different from the West: the inner cosmology; and he pointed out that Confucius’s greatest significance is to provide an example that everyone can learn, that is, the way of “becoming human” in Confucian context. This is also an important reason why Confucianism attaches importance to "becoming an exemplary person." From the cosmology to the road of "learning to become human ", Confucian society is closely related to relations that to some extent, can respond to the modern crisis of Western liberal rights-based democracy. What is more, it is becoming an important cultural resources to transform individualism in the Western world. In short, the focus of this thesis is to discuss the particularity of The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation and then to explore the unique interpretation of Roger T. Ames&apos;&apos;s Confucian ethics in the pre-Qin period, and to understand the significance of Roger T. Ames&apos;&apos;s reconstruction of Confucian ethics in the pre-Qin period for the reconstruction of contemporary Confucianism.