A History of Classical Chinese Thought

ISBN-13: 9781032090368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str.

Zehou Li

Opis

This book is the first English-language translation of Li Zehou’s work on classical Chinese thought. It includes chapters on the classical Chinese thinkers—Confucius, Mozi, Laozi, Sunzi, Xunzi and Zhuangzi—and also on later eras and thinkers such as Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty and the Song-Ming Neo-Confucians.

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Foreword: Translator’s Introduction

Chapter 1. Re-evaluating Confucius

Chapter 2. A Preliminary Exploration of the Mohists

Chapter 3. Sunzi, Laozi and Han Fei

Chapter 4. Key Features of the Xunzi, Yizhuan and the Doctrine of the Mean

Chapter 5. Qin and Han Dynasty Thought

Chapter 6. Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism

Chapter 7. Some Thoughts on Neo-Confucianism

Chapter 8. Engagement in Practical Affairs and Statecraft

Chapter 9. Some Thoughts on Chinese Wisdom

Afterword

O autorze

Li Zehou is widely regarded as China’s leading scholar of traditional and modern intellectual history and philosophy. In philosophy, his specialization is aesthetics and ethics, but he has also written on Kant, ancient thought, and modern political thought. He is the author of The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics (1995), and Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View (with Jane Cauvel, 2006), and The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition (2010).

Andrew Lambert is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department at College of Staten Island, City University of New York. His research focuses on ethics and Chinese thought, and he has published various translations and articles concerning Chinese and Comparative Philosophy.