Zhu Xi - Ivanhoe

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Résumé :
This volume contains nine chapters of translation, by a range of leading scholars, focusing on core themes in the philosophy of Zhu Xi (1130-1200), one of the most influential Chinese thinkers of the later Confucian tradition. It includes an Introduction to Zhu's life and thought, a chronology of important events in his life, and a list of key terms of art.

Zhu Xi's philosophy offers the most systematic and comprehensive expression of the Confucian tradition...

Biographie:

• Preface


• Conventions


• Acknowledgments


• About the Translators


• Introduction


• Chronology of Important Events in Zhu Xi's Life


• Chapter One: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics by Philip J. Ivanhoe


• Chapter Two: Moral Psychology and Cultivating the Self by Curie Vir?g


• Chapter Three: Politics and Government by Justin Tiwald


• Chapter Four: Poetry, Literature, Textual Study, and Hermeneutics by On-cho Ng


• Chapter Five: Social Conditions of His Time by Beverly Bossler


• Chapter Six: Heaven, Ghosts and Spirits, and Ritual by Hoyt Tillman


• Chapter Seven: Criticisms of Buddhism, Daoism, and the Learning of the Heart-mind by Ellen Neskar and Ari Borrell


• Chapter Eight: Science and Natural Philosophy by Yung Sik Kim


• Chapter Nine: Zhu Xi's Commentarial Work: Abiding in the Mean and the Constant by Daniel Gardner


• Key Terms of Art


• Index