Transformations Of The Confucian Way

ISBN-13: 9780813328041 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 267 str.

John H. Berthrong

Opis

From its beginnings, Confucianism has vibrantly taught that each person is able to find the Way individually in service to the community and the world. For over 2,600 years, Confucianism has sustained a continual process of transformation and growth. In this comprehensive new work, John Berthrong examines the vitality and expansion of the Confucian tradition throughout East Asia and into the entire modern world.Confucianism has been credited with being the dominant social and intellectual force shaping the enduring civilizations of East Asia. If we are to grasp the history of East Asia, we must understand the role that Confucianism has played in the social and cultural formation of the entire region. Just as civilizations are ever-changing, there has been nothing timeless or static about Confucianism.Berthrong's study is unique in its discussion of each of the historical and regional phases of the development of the Confucian Tao. All too often, Confucian studies have focused exclusively on the classical early period and the great thinkers of the later neo-Confucian revival in the Sung Ming dynasties. Berthrong's work opens the reader's eyes to the often neglected gifts of scholars of the Han, T'ang, and the modern periods, as well as to the vast contributions of Korea and Japan. The author concludes this revelatory study with an examination of the contemporary renewal of the Confucian Way in East Asia and its recent spread to the West.

Spis treści

A Note on Conventions -- Dynastic Chart -- Introduction: Transformations and Variations on Confucian History -- The Classical Tradition from Confucius to Hsün Tzu -- The Comments of the Han: The Confucian Canon Defined -- The Defense of the Faith from the Wei-Chin (220–420) to the T’ang (618–907): The Challenge of Taoism and Buddhism -- The Renaissance of the Sung: The Second Golden Age -- The Flourishing of the Yüan and Ming -- Korean and Japanese Confucianism and the Ch’ing School of Evidential Research -- Confucianism in the Modern World -- Further Readings and Contentious Issues -- Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table

O autorze

Berthrong, John