I see analysis as a methodology, one of attentive questioning and dialogue, rather than as the prelude to a coercive triumph of one set of doctrines over another. My own sense of what is important in philosophy bears the stamp of reading Plato, Aristotle, Kant and Wittgenstein, but in the present case can be considered to be an exercise in “analytic Chinese philosophy”, in part on the pattern of G A Cohen’s “analytic Marxism” or John Haldane’s “analytic Thomism”. My standpoint is that of a contemporary British philosopher, devoted to the analytic tradition but with a wider, if patchy, range of reading and appreciative engagement with phenomenological and post-phenomenological works and with both ancient and contemporary Chinese philosophical writings. I use “aspect” in the sense a side or feature, but also in the sense of a glimpse, perhaps a distant glimpse, from a certain standpoint.
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