Images of Human Nature : : A Sung Portrait / / Donald J. Munro.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 940
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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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