Images of Human Nature : A Sung Portrait /

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In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). For nearly six centuries Confucian orthodoxy was based on Chu Hsi's commentaries on Confucian classi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Munro, Donald J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zhu, Xi, > 1130-1200.
Philosophical anthropology.
Neo-Confucianism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Neo-confucianisme.
Anthropologie philosophique > Histoire.
Philosophical anthropology > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ONE. BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY
  • TWO. THE FAMILY AND THE STREAM: TRANQUIL HIERARCHY AND EQUAL WORTH
  • THREE. THE MIRROR AND THE BODY: INTERNAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXTERNAL EMBODIMENT
  • FOUR. THE PLANT AND THE GARDENER: SELF-CULTIVATION AND THE CULTIVATION OF OTHERS
  • FIVE. THE RULER AND THE RULED: AUTHORITARIAN TEACHERS AND PERSONAL DISCOVERY
  • SIX. TWO POLARITIES AND THEIR MODERN LEGACY: THE MORAL SENSE AND ITS CONTENT
  • NOTES
  • CHARACTER GLOSSARY
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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