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Chapters of thesis - 3,4,5,7,9 E-thesis on CORA only Not applicable This thesis is due for publication or the author is actively seeking to publish this material Parkes, Graham A. Jansen, Julia (KU Leuven) Ou, Yangxiao China Scholarship Council University College Cork 2016-11-11T13:07:12Z 2016 2016 This thesis is devoted to studying two historical philosophical events that happened in the West and the East. A metaphysical crisis stimulated Kant’s writings during his late critical period towards the notion of the supersensible. It further motivated a methodological shift and his coining of reflective judgment, which eventually brought about a systemic unfolding of his critical philosophy via Kantian moral teleology. Zhu Xi and his Neo-Confucian contemporaries confronted a transformed intellectual landscape resulting from the Neo-Daoist and Buddhist discourses of “what is beyond the form”. The revival of Confucianism required a method in order to relocate the formless Dao back into daily life and to reconstruct a meta-ethical foundation within a social context. This led to the Neo-Confucian recasting of “investigation of things” from The Great Learning via complex hermeneutic operations. By the respective investigation on, as well as the comparative analysis of the two events, I reveal the convergence and incommensurability between the two distinct cultural traditions concerning the metaphysical quests, the mechanism of intellectual development, and moral teleology, so as to capture the intrinsic characteristics of philosophical research in general. China Scholarship Council (PhD Research Scholarship (2011-2014)); College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork (Graduate School Erasmus Mobility Scholarship (2014-2015)) Not peer reviewed Accepted Version application/pdf Ou, Y. 2016. Reflective judgment vs. investigation of things – a comparative study of Kant and Zhu Xi. PhD Thesis, University College Cork. 249 https://hdl.handle.net/10468/3268 English en University College Cork © 2016, Yangxiao Ou. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Kant Teleology Zhu Xi Neo-Confucianism Dilthey Metaethics Reflective judgment Gewu Investigation of things Hermeneutic mechanism Critique of judgment The great learning Chinese hermeneutics Comparative philosophy Metholody of comparative philosophy The supersensible Metaphysical quest Li Principle Purpose Chinese philosophy Kantian philosophy Philosophical creativity Moral teleology false Reflective judgment vs. investigation of things – a comparative study of Kant and Zhu Xi 反思性判断力合目的性原则与格物穷理 — 康德目的论与朱熹理学比较研究 Doctoral thesis Doctoral PhD (Arts) julia.jansen@kuleuven.beinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess