Xunzi And Early Chinese Naturalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Xunzi And Early Chinese Naturalism write by Janghee Lee. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Xunzi And Early Chinese Naturalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores Xunzi's thought in relation to the early Chinese philosophical context that relied on the natural world.
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought write by Alexus McLeod. This book was released on 2020-09-03. Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian, this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought, highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.
Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought
Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought write by John Makeham. This book was released on 1994-07-22. Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first Western study of the philosophy of Xu Gan (170-217), a Confucian thinker who lived at a nodal point in the history of Chinese thought, when Han scholasticism had become ossified and the creative and independent quality that characterized Wei-Jin thought was just emerging. As the theme of his study, Makeham develops an original and richly detailed account of ming shi, 'name and actuality,' one of the key pairs of concepts in early Chinese thought. He shows how Xu Gan's understanding of the 'name and actuality' relationship was most immediately influenced by Xu Gan's understanding of why the Han dynasty had collapsed, yet had its roots in a tradition of discourse that spanned the classical period (circa 500-150 B.C.E.). In reconstructing the philosophical background of Xu Gan's understanding of the relationship between 'name and actuality,' Makeham identifies two antithetical theories of naming in early Chinese thought—nominalist and correlative—a distinction that is as great as the Realist-Nominalist distinction of Western thought. He shows how Xu Gan's views on the name and actuality relationship were animated, on the one hand, by a rejection of nominalist theories of naming, and on the other hand, by a novel appropriation of correlative theories of naming. The study also analyzes two of the more immediate social and intellectual issues in the late Eastern Han (25-220) period that had prompted Xu Gan to discuss the name and actuality relationship: the ethos of the scholar-gentry (ming jiao) and Han approaches to classical scholarship. Makeham demonstrates how Xu Gan's critique of these matters is valuable not only as a late Han philosophical account of what had led to the demise of the 400-year-old Han dynasty, but also as a mode of conceptualizing that contributed to the new direction that philosophical thinking took in the third century C.E..
Self-Realization through Confucian Learning
Self-Realization through Confucian Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-Realization through Confucian Learning write by Siufu Tang. This book was released on 2016-07-29. Self-Realization through Confucian Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Confucian philosopher Xunzis moral thought is considered in light of the modern focus on self-realization. Self-Realization through Confucian Learning reconstructs Confucian thinker Xunzis moral philosophy in response to the modern focus on self-realization. Xunzi (born around 310 BCE) claims that human xing (nature or native conditions) is without an ethical framework and has a tendency to dominate, leading to bad judgments and bad behavior. Confucian ritual propriety (li) is needed to transform these human native conditions. Through li, people become self-directing: in control of feelings and desires and in command of their own lives. Siufu Tang explicates Xunzis understanding of the hierarchical structure of human agency to articulate why and how li is essential to self-realization. Ritual propriety also structures relationships to make a harmonious communal life possible. Tangs focus on self-realization highlights how Confucianism can address the individual as well as the communal and serve as a philosophy for contemporary times.
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue write by Sarah Allan. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought. This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by studying the principles which govern nature. Accordingly, the natural world rather than a religious tradition provided the root metaphors of early Chinese thought. Sarah Allan examines the concrete imagery, most importantly water and plant life, which served as a model for the most fundamental concepts in Chinese philosophy including such ideas as dao, the "way", de, "virtue" or "potency", xin, the "mind/heart", xing "nature", and qi, "vital energy". Water, with its extraordinarily rich capacity for generating imagery, provided the primary model for conceptualizing general cosmic principles while plants provided a model for the continuous sequence of generation, growth, reproduction, and death and was the basis for the Chinese understanding of the nature of man in both religion and philosophy. "I find this book unique among recent efforts to identify and explain essential features of early Chinese thought because of its emphasis on imagery and metaphor". -- Christian Jochim, San Jose State University
