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    Even granting Wang's intuitions, his metaphysics may not ... — Carmelics
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    Even granting Wang's intuitions, his metaphysics may not be the best explanation of them.

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    • 1.Buddhist dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda) generates equivalent moral intuitions about interconnectedness without requiring Wang's liangzhi as a universal moral mind.
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    • 2.Confucian role ethics (Ames, Rosemont) grounds compassionate extension in relational obligations, explaining Wang's core moral intuitions through social ontology rather than metaphysical monism.
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    • 3.When multiple competing frameworks explain the same intuitions equally well, the explanatory uniqueness of Wang's metaphysics is undermined on standard inference-to-best-explanation criteria.
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    • 1.Phenomenological accounts (Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger) explain felt unity with nature through embodied perception without positing a shared metaphysical substance.
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    • 2.If embodied cognition explains the same intuitions Wang cites, his stronger monistic metaphysics violates Ockham's razor by multiplying ontological commitments unnecessarily.
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    • 1.Darwin suggested that compassion for other humans can be explained in evolutionary terms.
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    • 2.The biophilia hypothesis provides an evolutionary explanation for human fondness for other animals and plants.
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    • 3.Although there is no obvious evolutionary explanation for engagement with non-living natural beauty, it is questionable how common that trait is.
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    It is not a decisive objection to Wang’s view that humans often fail to manifest benevolence to other humans, non–human animals, or plants. Wang is arguing that all humans manifest these responses sometimes (and that this is best explained by his favored metaphysics). Like all Neo–Confucians, Wang readily acknowledges that selfish desires frequently block the manifestation of our shared nature. However, there are three lines of objection to Wang’s view that are harder to dismiss. (1) There i
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