World of Thought in Ancient China

Name: World of Thought in Ancient China
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ISBN: 9780674961913

ISBN-10: 0674961919

ISBN-13: 9780674961913

Edition: 1985 (Reprint)

Authors: Benjamin I. Schwartz

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The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture Attention is accorded to pre-Confucian texts, to the evolution of early Confucianism, to Mo-Tzu, to the "Taoists" the legalists, the Ying-Yang school, the "five classics" as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools.…

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 514
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Benjamin I. Schwartz was Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University.



Introduction



Early Cultural Orientations: Issues and Speculations



Early Chou Thought: Continuity and Breakthrough



Confucius: The Vision of the Analects



Mo-tzu's Challenge



The Emergence of a Common Discourse: Some Key Terms



The Ways of Taoism



The Defense of the Confucian Faith: Mencius and Hsun-tzu



Legalism: The Behavioral Science



Correlative Cosmology: The ""School of Yin and Yang""



The Five Classics Postscript


Notes Selected


Bibliography


Glossary


Index