Thinking through Confucius / David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames.
Material type: TextSeries: SUNY series in systematic philosophyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1987.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 393 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 058507609X
- 9780585076096
- 0887063772
- 9780887063770
- 0887063764
- 9780887063763
- 181/.09512 19
- B128.C8 H35 1987eb
- 08.10
- CI 9097
- CI 9303
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-375) and index.
Print version record.
The conditions of thinking -- Learning -- Reflecting -- Realizing -- An illustration: the Book of Songs -- Personal articulation: some alternatives -- The mutuality of ritual action and signification -- The authoritative person -- An illustration: Po I and Shu Ch'i -- The primacy of aesthetic order -- The masses -- Effecting sociopolitical order -- The exemplary person: Chun Tzu -- The question of Confucius' cosmology -- T'ien and T'ien Ming -- Te -- Tao -- T'ien-jen -- Confucian cosmology as ars contextualis -- The centrality of communication -- Sage: a philological and literary analysis -- The sage and the ordering of names -- Shu: the unifying thread -- The sage as master of communication -- the failings of Confucius -- Opportunities for engagement -- Invitation to the future.
Thinking Through Confucius critically interprets the conceptual structure underlying Confucius' philosophical reflections. It also investigates "thinking," or "philosophy" from the perspective of Confucius. That authors suggest that an examination of Chinese philosophy may provide an alternative definition of philosophy that can be used to address some of the pressing issues of the Western cultural tradition.
English.
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