China In Early Enlightenment Political Thought

Author : Simon Kow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317611209
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought written by Simon Kow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the Baron de Montesquieu. Unlike surveys which provide only cursory overviews of Enlightenment views of China, or individual studies of each thinker which tend to address their conceptions of China in individual chapters, this is the first book to provide in-depth comparative analyses of these seminal Enlightenment thinkers that specifically link their views on China to their political concerns. Against the backdrop especially of the Jesuit accounts of China which these philosophers read, Bayle, Leibniz, and Montesquieu interpreted imperial China in three radically divergent ways: as a tolerant, atheistic monarchy; as an exemplar of human and divine justice; and as an exceptional but nonetheless corrupt despotic state. The book thus shows how the development of political thought in the early Enlightenment was closely linked to the question of China as a positive or negative model for Europe, and argues that revisiting Bayle’s approach to China is a salutary corrective to the errors and presumptions in the thought of Leibniz and Montesquieu. The book also discusses how Chinese reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on Enlightenment writers’ different views of China as they sought to envisage how China should be remodeled.

Author : Qichao Liang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period written by Qichao Liang and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Břetislav Horyna
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004544666
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Thought in Early German Enlightenment from Leibniz to Goethe written by Břetislav Horyna and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical-historical examination of the influence of the knowledge of China imparted by the Jesuits on the thinking of the German Enlightenment in the 18th century. It is not primarily concerned with a comprehensive reconstruction of the philosophy of the thinkers discussed, but rather with the political and intellectual contextualisation of a line of thought that recognised the practical philosophy and state organisation of China as different from that of Europe, while equal to it and in some respects superior to it. This challenged the claim of theology that Christian revelation alone provided access to truth. The volume analyses the opposition to this line of thought, especially on the part of Protestant orthodoxy. It argues that in the German Enlightenment of the 18th century, the possibility emerged to conceive philosophy on the basis of reason as a phenomenon not limited to Europe but as a path followed under different conditions in China.

Author : Liang Chi-Chao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317830652
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Chinese Political Thought written by Liang Chi-Chao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume III of six in a series on Ethics and Political Philosophy. Originally published in 1930, this takes the early Tsin period and looks at the history of Chinese political thought. It is based on the notes of lectures which Mr. Liang Chi-Chao delivered first at the College of Law and Politics in Peking, and later at South-eastern University and the College of Law and Politics in Nanking during the year 1922.

Author : D. Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403905282
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought written by D. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the knowledge claims of European and North American social and political thought as it evolved from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

Author : Elbert Duncan Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Political Thought written by Elbert Duncan Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bettina Brandt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442617004
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China in the German Enlightenment written by Bettina Brandt and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of political identity and Europe’s own burgeoning global power. China in the German Enlightenment considers the place of German philosophy, particularly the work of Leibniz, Goethe, Herder, and Hegel, in this development. Beginning with the first English translation of Walter Demel’s classic essay “How the Chinese Became Yellow,” the collection’s essays examine the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory.

Author : Kung-chuan Hsiao
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400869536
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume 1 written by Kung-chuan Hsiao and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century. The author systematically treats leading thinkers, schools, and movements, displaying a consummate mastery of traditional Chinese learning, and of Western analytical and comparative methods. This first complete translation includes prefatory remarks by Kung-chuan Hsiao and notes prepared by the translator to assist the Western reader. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Liang Chi-Chao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780700703548
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period written by Liang Chi-Chao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ashley Eva Millar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773549161
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Singular Case written by Ashley Eva Millar and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China held a unique place in European thought during the eighteenth century. Considered a relatively unknown but advanced agrarian and commercial civilization, the Chinese Empire represented the apex of an economic system that was only beginning to be supplanted. Europeans did not assume their superiority and were drawn to study the nature and organization of China’s economy. Analyzing the writings of early modern European travellers, missionaries, merchants, geographers, and philosophers, including Charles de Secondat, Denis Diderot, David Hume, François Quesnay, Abbé Raynal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Voltaire, A Singular Case evaluates the circulation of information about the Chinese political economy that fed European imaginations. Ashley Millar examines perceptions of China’s science, technology, and moral and behavioural foundations, foreign trade policies, and the form and function of China’s government in order to question the extent to which consensus emerged on China’s successes and failures and to assess how knowledge of the Chinese system influenced the Enlightenment Shedding light on contemporary debates on the rise of the west and the Great Divergence from a historical vantage point, A Singular Case offers striking observations on Western views of early modern China.