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Author Qingxiong, Zhang

Title Conscience and Cognition in Social Research
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (217 p.)
Series China Perspectives Ser
China Perspectives Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Note -- 1 Seeking the Integration of "Explanation" and "Understanding": On the Developmental Trajectories... -- 1.1 Habermas's On the Logic of the Social Sciences -- 1.2 The Confrontation Between "Cultural Science," "Spiritual Science" and Positivist Science -- 1.3 Durkheim's "Probability of Social Fact" and Weber's "Interpretive Understanding" -- 1.4 Structural Functional Theory's Path to Integration and Remaining Issues
1.5 The Contribution of Marxism to Research Method in Social Science -- Notes -- 2 The Positivist Methodology of Social Science and the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- 2.1 Cooling the Mania of Enlightenment With the Sanity of Positivist Method -- 2.2 The Construction of Scientific Theory Through Logical and Semantic Analysis -- 2.3 Positivism and the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Notes -- 3 Rational Choice Theory and Critical Theory's Critique -- 3.1 The Theoretical Framework of Rational Choice Theory -- 3.2 The Practical Application of Rational Choice Theory
3.3 The Criticism of "Critical Theory" Against "Rational Choice Theory" -- Notes -- 4 The Duality of Religion: A Dialectic Review On "Rational Choice Theory of Religion" -- 4.1 The Origin and Theoretical Foundation of "Rational Choice Theory of Religion" -- 4.2 Theoretical Dilemmas of Rational Choice Theory of Religion -- 4.3 A Dialectical Review On the Duality of Religion -- Notes -- 5 "Communicative Rationality" and "Political Theology" in the Public Sphere -- 5.1 "The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere" -- 5.2 The Origin and Development of Political Theology
5.3 Opposing the Theocracy Model -- 5.4 The Legitimacy of Democracy as the Only Feasible Legitimacy -- Notes -- 6 Conscience and Cognition: A Comparison in the Contexts of Chinese and Western Cultural Heritage -- 6.1 The Academic Dispute Over "Conscience" Between Xiong Shili and Feng Youlan -- 6.2 The Concept of Conscience in the Chinese Context -- 6.3 The Concept of Conscience in the Western Context -- 6.4 Conscience and Cognitive Style -- 6.5 Reflective Summary -- Notes -- 7 Xiong Shili's Interpretation and Criticism of Wang Yangming's "Four-Verse Teaching"
7.1 The Topic of "Four-Verse Teaching" -- 7.2 Analysis of the "Substance of the Mind" -- 7.3 Analysis of "Activation of the Will" -- 7.4 Analysis of "Conscience" -- 7.5 Analysis of "Investigating Things" -- Notes -- 8 A Comparison Between Xiong Shili's and Mou Zongsan's Interpretation of the "Aporia of Extending Knowledge" -- 8.1 Mou Zongsan's Questioning of Xiong Shili's Interpretation of "Extending Knowledge Through Investigating Things" in The Great Learning -- 8.2 Mou Zongsan's Solution to the "Aporia of Extending Knowledge"
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8.3 Xiong Shili's and Mou Zongsan's Interpretation and Solution to the "Aporia of Extending Knowledge"..
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ISBN 9781000865714
1000865711