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Foundations of Confucian thought : intellectual life in the Chunqiu period (722-453 B.C.E.) /

This ambitious work focuses on the world of Chinese thought during the two and a half centuries directly preceding and partly overlapping the time of Confucius. Ideas developed by Chunqiu statesmen and thinkers formed the intellectual milieu of Confucius and his disciples and contributed directly to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pines, Yuri
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sources of Chunqiu thought
  • Heaven and man part ways: changing attitudes toward divine authority
  • The universal panacea: ritual and preserving hierarchical order
  • The world falls apart: a futile search for international order
  • When a minister mounts the ruler: Chunqiu views of loyalty
  • Nobility of blood and spirit: Chunqiu ethical thought
  • The Chunqiu legacy
  • Appendix 1. Grammatical change in the Zuo: case studies of the "yu" and "qi" particles
  • Appendix 2. Zhanguo data in the Zuo
  • Appendix 3. Comparing scribal accounts in the Zuo
  • Appendix 4. Spurious speeches and interpolations in the Zuo.