Transition To Neo Confucianism

Author : Anne D. Birdwhistell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804765749

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Transition to Neo-Confucianism by Anne D. Birdwhistell Pdf

The Sung Neo-Confucian synthesis is one of the two great formative periods in the history of Confucianism. Shao Yung (1011-77) was a key contributor to this synthesis, and this study attempts to make understandable the complex and highly theoretical thought of a philosopher who has been, for the most part, misunderstood for a thousand years. It is the first full-length study in any language of Shao Yung's philosophy. Using an explicit metaphilosophical approach, the author examines the implicit and assumed aspects of Shao Yung's thought and shows how it makes sense to view his philosophy as an explanatory theory. Shao Yung explained all kinds of change and activity in the universe with six fundamental concepts that he applied to three realms of reality: subsensorial "matter," the phenomenal world of human experience, and the theoretical realm of symbols. The author also analyzes the place of the sage in Shao's philosophy. Not only would the sage restore political and moral unity in society, but through his special kind of knowing he also would restore cosmological unity. Shao's recognition that the perceiver had a critical role in making and shaping reality led to his ideal of the sage as the perfect knower. Utilizing Shao's own device of a moving observational viewpoint, the study concludes with an examination of the divergent interpretations of Shao's philosophy from the eleventh to the twentieth century. Because Shao took very seriously numerological aspects of Chinese thought that are often greatly misunderstood in the West (e.g., the I Ching), the study is also a very good introduction to the epistemological implications of an important strand of all traditional Chinese philosophical thought.

Author : Peter K. Bol
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804765756

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‘This Culture of Ours’ by Peter K. Bol Pdf

This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a literary view of culture - in which literary accomplishment and mastery of traditional forms were regarded as essential - to the ethical orientation of Neo-Confucianism, in which the cultivation of one's innate moral ability was regarded as the goal of learning. The author shows that this transformation paralleled the collapse of the T'ang order and the restoration of a centralized empire under the Sung, underscoring the connection between elite formation and political institutions.

Author : Paul Jakov Smith,Richard von Glahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173815

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The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History by Paul Jakov Smith,Richard von Glahn Pdf

This volume seeks to study the connections between two well-studied epochs in Chinese history: the mid-imperial era of the Tang and Song (ca. 800-1270) and the late imperial era of the late Ming and Qing (1550-1900). Both eras are seen as periods of explosive change, particularly in economic activity, characterized by the emergence of new forms of social organization and a dramatic expansion in knowledge and culture. The task of establishing links between these two periods has been impeded by a lack of knowledge of the intervening Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). This historiographical "black hole" has artificially interrupted the narrative of Chinese history and bifurcated it into two distinct epochs. This book aims to restore continuity to that historical narrative by filling the gap between mid-imperial and late imperial China. The contributors argue that the Song-Yuan-Ming transition (early twelfth through the late fifteenth century) constitutes a distinct historical period of transition and not one of interruption and devolution. They trace this transition by investigating such subjects as contemporary impressions of the period, the role of the Mongols in intellectual life, the economy of Jiangnan, urban growth, neo-Confucianism and local society, commercial publishing, comic drama, and medical learning.

Author : Peter K. Bol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684174805

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Neo-Confucianism in History by Peter K. Bol Pdf

"Where does Neo-Confucianism—a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it—fit into our story of China’s history? This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of the middle period in China’s history. The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible."

Author : Shu-hsien Liu
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0313275815

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Essentials of Contemporary Neo-Confucian Philosophy by Shu-hsien Liu Pdf

This volume is the follow-up to Understanding Confucian Philosophy: Classical and Sung-Ming, which presented the first two Epochs of Confucian philosophy. The third Epoch, presented in this book, is that of Contemporary Neo-Confucian philosophy. It notes a paradigm shift from the late Ming to the early Ch'ing, which shows us how the line of Sung-Ming Neo-Confucian philosophy was broken. Then, background information is given to answer the question of how the phoenix was reborn from the ashes; at the height of the iconoclast May Fourth Movement in 1919, Liang Sou-ming, the forerunner of the movement, developed his ideas about East-West cultures and their philosophies. During the darkest moments of Chinese history, three generations of New Confucian scholars developed their ideas and achieved great scholarship. Shu-hsien Liu presents a framework of four groups to portray the movement. And, the philosophies of Fung Yu-lan, Hsuing Shih-li, Thome H. Fang, T'ang Chun-I, and Mou tsung-san are reviewed and analyzed. The international dimension of the third generation of New Confucians is also introduced. In the conclusion, Shu-hsien Liu comments on the relevance of this trend of thought today with a view toward the future.

Author : Wm. Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : China
ISBN : 9780231052290

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Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart by Wm. Theodore De Bary Pdf

A major addition to our understanding of the development of Neo-Confucianism--its complexity, diversity, richness, and depth as a major component of the moral and spiritual fiber of the peoples of East Asia.

Author : Don J. Wyatt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0824817559

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The Recluse of Loyang by Don J. Wyatt Pdf

"Few thinkers have stood as squarely at both the center and the periphery of an intellectual movement as has Shao Yung (1011-1077). Ethical model and eccentric, socialite and eremite, Shao Yung is perhaps not only the greatest enigma of early Neo-Confucianism, but also one of its undisputed giants. In this impressive life-and-thought study, Don J. Wyatt painstakingly sifts through all available evidence relating to Shao Yung and his scholarship to provide a portrait that fully exposes the moral center of the man and his work. Drawing on the abundant store of letters and accounts by Shao's contemporaries and his own much-neglected poetry, Wyatt has assembled a study that intimately relates Shao's life to his thought. He challenges the assumptions of previous Western scholarship by persuasively arguing against the acceptance of works traditionally ascribed to Shao - specifically, the Kuan-wu wai-p'ien (Outer Chapters on Observing Things), the Yu-ch'iao wen-ta (Fisherman and Woodcutter Dialogue), and the cryptic quasi-autobiographical essay Wu-ming kung chuan (Biography of the Nameless Lord)." "Shao is presented as an independent thinker whose philosophical lexicon functioned according to a profound interdependence that was unique among the systems of his peers. His metaphysical concepts, which appear impervious to and beyond the scope of human influence - namely, his ching-shih (world ordering), kuan-wu (observing things), and I-Ching - derived hsien-t'ien (before Heaven) methodologies - are essentially the products of a morally reflective life. Wyatt's discoveries, therefore, refute the common assertion of Shao Yung's moral indifference. Moreover, by meticulously integrating the progress of this Neo-Confucian's thought into the course of his life, the author has produced one of the most textured and accessible works on a philosopher of the Sung era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Junmai Zhang
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000133150

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The Development of Neo-Confucian Thought by Junmai Zhang Pdf

Author : Wm. Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231942982

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The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism by Wm. Theodore De Bary Pdf

Author : On-cho Ng
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791491089

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Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing by On-cho Ng Pdf

This first book-length study of the Cheng-Zhu School of Confucianism in the early Qing period explores the thought of Li Guangdi, a powerful official in the court of the Kangxi emperor. On-cho Ng undertakes close readings of Li's ideas of ultimate truths and first principles, while situating them in the context of the intellectual concerns of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China. Addressing philosophical issues neglected in scholarship on early Qing learning, the author offers a new angle from which to view the Ming-Qing intellectual transition and the formation of early Qing thought. He argues that Cheng-Zhu learning, far from being out of step with the epochal climate of thought because of its putative preoccupation with the ultimate and the transcendent, was actually a dated reflection of, and active contributor to, early Qing thought. By tracing the contour and development of Li Guangdi's thought formulated within the bounds of inherited Cheng-Zhu teachings, this book reveals how philosophic discourses in traditional China were often dynamic, hermeneutic endeavors of reinterpreting and renewing received tradition.

Author : Wing-tsit Chan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824846978

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Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism by Wing-tsit Chan Pdf

The present anthology consists of papers presented at the International Conference of Chu Hsi held July 6–15 1982, in Honolulu. The symposium, convened as one of the continuing East-West Philosophers' Conferences and in conjunction with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Hawaii, was the first on this Neo-Confucian thinker.

Author : James T.C. Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684172702

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China Turning Inward by James T.C. Liu Pdf

During the traumatic opening decades of the Southern Sung, Emperor Kao-tsung’s unspoken determination to win imperial safety at any cost shaped not only court policy but Confucian intellectual developments. The intellectual climate of the Northern Sung had been confident, buoyant, outreaching, and exploratory; in the Southern Sung, it turned inward. The turn was not, however, a simple turn to conservative moral and political Confucianism; and in this book, James T. C. Liu explores how Kao-tsung used ideological window-dressing to consolidate extraordinary state power in the emperor’s hands. Ups and downs in the political fortunes of moralistic conservatives are also specially examined for their effects on the nature of the Neo-Confucianism that eventually became state orthodoxy.

Author : Carsun Chang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080840105X

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The Development of Neo-Confucian Thought by Carsun Chang Pdf

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Author : Weiming Tu,Tou Wei-Ming,Tu (Wei-ming),Weiming Du
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520029682

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Neo-Confucian Thought in Action by Weiming Tu,Tou Wei-Ming,Tu (Wei-ming),Weiming Du Pdf

Author : John Fuh-sheng Hsieh
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814596404

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Confucian Culture And Democracy by John Fuh-sheng Hsieh Pdf

The debate over the compatibility of Confucian culture with democracy is an ongoing one. Yet, few books in the existing literature have dealt specifically with the relationship between Confucian culture (as opposed to Confucianism or general cultural factors) and democracy. Prior to the end of the Second World War, no Confucian society was democratic, so the debate could only be done in an abstract sense. Only after the war did Japan emerge as a democratic country, and it is not a perfect case of the Confucian culture — for one, its Confucian legacy is diluted; moreover, its postwar transition to democracy was, to a large extent, externally imposed rather than internally generated. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, South Korea and Taiwan joined what Samuel P Huntington termed the “third wave of democratization”. Finally, at least two societies with strong Confucian heritage turned democratic, and unlike Japan, their democratic transition resulted mainly from internal political dynamics.Confucian Culture and Democracy represents a comprehensive effort to examine the linkages between Confucian culture and democracy. Building on the empirical evidence from South Korea and Taiwan, and examining semi-democratic societies with extensive experiences in electoral politics like Singapore and Hong Kong, this book provides readers with an empirical and detailed coverage of democratization and democratic governance in various Confucian societies. Japan — as a country influenced by Confucianism, is also analyzed, together with China — whether China joins the family of democratic states is undoubtedly an important concern for many in the region and beyond.