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Author Birdwhistell, Anne D.

Title Li Yong (1627-1705) and epistemological dimensions of Confucian philosophy / Anne D. Birdwhistell
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description 285 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents 1. Toward a Search Frame -- 2. The Learning of the Sages -- 3. To Teach -- 4. Li Yong's Teachings -- 5. To Learn -- 6. Concluding Observations
Summary This study has three separate but interrelated aims: to offer a methodological approach for comparative philosophy on the level of the philosophical system; to examine Confucian philosophy as a philosophical system, with emphasis on its epistemological dimensions; and to use the thought of a particular thinker as an example of how the Confucian tradition was appropriated by individual thinkers. The author demonstrates that Confucian philosophy was a social system in which ideas and actions gained philosophical meaning in reference to specific socio-historical contexts and to specific levels of society (from the Confucian tradition itself to the individual person). Throughout, the author employs insights from anthropological theory, notably the social theory of communication, and draws on Western philosophy to illuminate Confucian ideas and assumptions and to provide cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts
Notes Bibliography: p249-265. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-265) and index
Subject Li, Yong, 1627-1705.
Confucianism.
Knowledge, Theory of.
LC no. 95031977
ISBN 0804726051 (acid-free paper)