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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814843003321

Autore

Schwartz Benjamin I (Benjamin Isadore), <1916-1999.>

Titolo

The world of thought in ancient China / / Benjamin I. Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985

ISBN

9780674043312

0-674-04331-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (490 pages)

Disciplina

181.11

Soggetti

Philosophy, Chinese - To 221 B.C

China Intellectual life To 221 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-468) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Early Cultural Orientations: Issues and Speculations -- 2. Early Chou Thought: Continuity and Breakthrough -- 3. Confucius: The Vision of the Analects -- 4. Mo-tzu’s Challenge -- 5. The Emergence of a Common Discourse: Some Key Terms -- 6. The Ways of Taoism -- 7. The Defense of the Confucian Faith: Mencius and Hsün-tzu -- 8. Legalism: The Behavioral Science -- 9. Correlative Cosmology: The "School of Yin and Yang" -- 10. The Five Classics -- Postscript -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese 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; the evolution of early Confucianism; Mo-Tzu; the “Taoists,”; the legalists; the Ying-Yang school; and the “five classics”; as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools. The main focus is on the high cultural texts, but Mr. Schwartz also explores the question of the relationship of these texts to the vast realm of popular culture.