The World of Thought in Ancient China / / Benjamin Isadore Schwartz.

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 emphasiz...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1985
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (502 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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