| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 514 pages) |
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Cover -- Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Chinese Philosophy in the Western Academy: Between Sinology and Philosophy -- 2. Sinological Challenge Concerning Classical Chinese Philosophy -- 2.1. The Problem of Authorship in Philosophical Interpretations -- 2.2. A Case Study of Authorship: Contemporary Debate on the Zhuangzi -- 2.3. Multiple Roles of Authorship -- 2.4. Sinology and Philosophy on Authorship and Textual Coherence |
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2.5. Two Sets of Scholarly Objects: Sinological versus Philosophical -- 2.6. Three Roles of Sinology in Chinese Philosophy: Preparer, Challenger, and Jailbreaker -- 3. The Politics of Chinese Philosophy in the West: Some Recent Developments -- 3.1. An Uproar in America -- 3.2. A Controversy in Europe -- 4. Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China -- 4.1 Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom -- 4.2. Summary of Chapters -- Part 1 -- 1. Ritual and Ren in Confucius's World: Humaneness-cum-Justice at the Incipience of Chinese Moral-Political Philosophy |
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1. Situating Confucius and the Analects -- 2. Confucius and the Mandate of Heaven -- 2.1. The Mandate of Heaven and the Justice Turn in Chinese History -- 2.2. Confucius's Subversive Claim Concerning the Heavenly Mandate -- 3. Ritualizing the World -- 3.1. Vicissitudes of Ritual in Early Zhou -- 3.2. Emergence of Ritual as a Distinct Conceptual Category -- 4. Confucius's Ethicization of Ritual: Shifting the Ground of Ritual from Heaven to Ren -- 4.1. Ren: A New and Contested Ground of Ritual -- 4.2. Ren as Humaneness: Ideal Person, Family, and Polity -- 4.3. Ren as Justice |
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A. Semantic Argument -- B. Philosophical Argument: Ren and the Golden Rule in the Analects -- 4.4. Continuum between Humaneness and Justice in Confucius's Ren -- 5. After Confucius: Early Confucianism in the Excavated Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts -- 5.1. Scholarly Disputations about the Excavated Texts -- 5.2. Confucian Discourse in the Guodian Manuscripts -- A. Tian (Heaven), Ming (Mandate or Fate), and Xing (Human Nature) -- B. Unity of Virtues and the Imperative of Self-Cultivation -- 6. Conclusion: Humaneness-cum-Justice in Confucius's Moral-Political Project -- Part II |
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2. The Great Divergence: Mozi and Mencius on Justice and Humaneness -- 1. Mozi: The Pioneer of Universal Justice in Chinese History -- 1.1. Mozi and the Mohist Project -- 1.2. Heaven, Ghosts, and Spirits in the Mohist Cosmos: Caring Supernatural Agents on Human Affairs -- A. The Supernatural: Confucius versus Mozi -- B. Tensions in the Mohist Supernatural World -- 1.3. The Two Legs of Universal Justice in the Mozi: Impartial Care and Objective Standards -- A. Impartial Care -- 1) Universal State Consequentialism -- 2) Golden Rule in the Mozi |
| Summary |
This book offers a new narrative and interpretative framework about the origins of moral-political philosophy that tracks how the three core normative values, humaneness, justice, and personal freedom, were formulated, reformulated, and contested by early Chinese philosophers in their effort to negotiate the relationship among three distinct domains, the personal, the familial, and the political. Such efforts took place as those thinkers were reimagining a new moral-political order, debating its guiding norms, and exploring possible sources within the context of an evolving understanding of He |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed May 19, 2022) |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Chinese -- To 221 B.C.
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Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- To 1500
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Ethics -- China -- History -- To 1500
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Ethics
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Philosophy, Chinese
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Political science -- Philosophy
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197603499 |
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0197603491 |
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9780197603505 |
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0197603505 |
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9780197603482 |
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0197603483 |
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