Xunzi

Author : Xunzi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169314
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xunzi written by Xunzi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi presents a more systematic vision of the Confucian ideal than the fragmented sayings of Confucius and Mencius, articulating a Confucian perspective on ethics, politics, warfare, language, psychology, human nature, ritual, and music, among other topics. Aimed at general readers and students of Chinese thought, Eric Hutton’s translation makes the full text of this important work more accessible in English than ever before. This edition features an introduction, a timeline of early Chinese history, a list of important names and terms, cross-references, explanatory notes, a bibliography, and an index.

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231521316
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xunzi written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession, and observance of ritual in life. Readers familiar with Xunzi's work will find that Burton Watson's lucid translation breathes new life into this classic. Those new to Xunzi will find his ideas on government, language, and order and safety in society surprisingly close to concerns of our own age.

Author : Janghee Lee
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791461976
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xunzi And Early Chinese Naturalism written by Janghee Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Xunzi's thought in relation to the early Chinese philosophical context that relied on the natural world.

Author : T. C. Kline
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872205222
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi written by T. C. Kline and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xunzi is traditionally identified as the third philosopher in the Confucian tradition, after Confucius and Mencius. Unlike the work of his two predecessors, he wrote complete essays in which he defends his own interpretation of the Confucian position and attacks the positions of others. Within the early Chinese tradition, Xunzi's writings are arguably the most sophisticated and philosophically developed. This richness of philosophical content has led to a lively discussion of his philosophy among contemporary scholars. This volume collects some of the most accessible and important contemporary essays on the thought of Xunzi, with an Introduction that provides historical background, philosophical context, and relates each of the selections to Xunzi's philosophy as a whole and to the themes of virtue, nature, and moral agency. These themes are also discussed in relation to Western philosophical concerns.

Author : Xunzi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xunzi: Books 1-6 written by Xunzi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward J. Machle
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143841157X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi written by Edward J. Machle and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-08-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation and commentary on Xunzi's Tian Lun argues against naturalistic interpretations of Tian. Tracing the course of interpretation of Xunzi down to the present, discussing some of the influences that affected how he was understood, and raising questions about some contemporary revisionary attempts, Machle suggests unusual lines of interpretation.

Author : Aaron Stalnaker
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013841
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Our Evil written by Aaron Stalnaker and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can people ever really change? Do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? Overcoming Our Evil focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called "spiritual exercises." These practices engage thought, imagination, and sensibility, and have a significant ethical component, yet aim for a broader transformation of the whole personality. Going beyond recent philosophical and historical work that has focused on ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, Stalnaker broadens ethical inquiry into spiritual exercises by examining East Asian as well as classical Christian sources, and taking religious and seemingly "aesthetic" practices such as prayer, ritual, and music more seriously as objects of study. More specifically, Overcoming Our Evil examines and compares the thought and practice of the early Christian Augustine of Hippo, and the early Confucian Xunzi. Both have sophisticated and insightful accounts of spiritual exercises, and both make such ethical work central to their religious thought and practice. Yet to understand the two thinkers' recommendations for cultivating virtue we must first understand some important differences. Here Stalnaker disentangles the competing aspects of Augustine and Xunxi's ideas of "human nature." His groundbreaking comparison of their ethical vocabularies also drives a substantive analysis of fundamental issues in moral psychology, especially regarding emotion and the complex idea of "the will," to examine how our dispositions to feel, think, and act might be slowly transformed over time. The comparison meticulously constructs vivid portraits of both thinkers demonstrating where they connect and where they diverge, making the case that both have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. In throwing light on these seemingly disparate ancient figures in unexpected ways, Stalnaker redirects recent debate regarding practices of personal formation, and more clearly exposes the intellectual and political issues involved in the retrieval of "classic" ethical sources in diverse contemporary societies, illuminating a path toward a contemporary understanding of difference.

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499422
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics written by Sungmoon Kim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes Mencius' and Xunzi's political thought accessible to political theorists, philosophers and scientists with no expertise in classical Chinese or sinology.

Author : Masayuki Sato
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004420320
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confucian Quest for Order written by Masayuki Sato and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xun Zi, one of the principal thinkers of the pre-imperial period and as such still widely read, ought to appear on any reading list on Chinese intellectual history. Dr. Sato's volume deals with the origin and formation of Xun Zi’s political thought, with close focus on the intellectual activity of the Jixia Academy and its impact on this synthesizer’s theory on rituals and social norms. The author convincingly deals with the problems of textual authenticity and biography. The main part of the work treats the shift of intellectual inquiry from an argument of ethical matters to an analysis of the principle(s) of socio-political mechanism, thus showing Xun Zi as a formative synthesizer of the two main streams of early Chinese intellectual discourse.

Author : T. C. Kline III
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438451954
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi written by T. C. Kline III and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges traditional views to consider Xunzi as a religious thinker. Xunzi, a founding figure in the Confucian tradition, is one of the world’s great philosophers and theorists of religion. For much of the last century, his work has been seen largely as critical of religion, particularly the popular beliefs and invocations of supernatural forces that underpin so many religious rituals. Contributors to this volume challenge this view and offer a more sophisticated picture of Xunzi. He emerges not as critic, but rather as an adherent of religion who seeks to give religious practices meaning even though many religious beliefs are mistaken or self-serving. Each essay offers a powerful illustration of Xunzi as both a religious devotee and as a philosopher of religion, drawing on a wide array of disciplines and methodologies.