| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) |
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SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture |
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SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Contents |
Timing and Rulership in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lüshi chunqiu) -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note Concerning Conventions Used in This Book -- 1. Introduction: The Lüshi chunqiu's Background and Foreground -- Lü Buwei and the LSCQ -- Season Timing (chunqiu) and the Nature of the LSCQ -- The LSCQ's Impact -- The Mythification of History -- 2. The LSCQ's Programmatic Conceptions of Xing: Cultivating Desires in the Process of Life -- The LSCQ's Seasonal Arrangement of Traditional Theories on Xing -- 3. An Emergent Social Order -- Human Character and Social Order: An Analogy |
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A Survey of Pre-Qin Organic and Instrumental Positions and Their Impact on the LSCQ -- The LSCQ's Unified Eclectic Conception on the Origin and Role of the State: An Organic Instrumental Position -- 4. Proper Timing in the Cosmic, Historical, and Moral Realms -- Cosmic and Seasonal Proper Timing -- Historical Proper Timing -- Proper Timing in Moral and Interpersonal Relations -- 5. Applying Proper Timing to Contemporary Issues -- Is Social and Political Philosophy Culture Bound? -- Contemporary Philosophy and the LSCQ -- Appendix I: Phenomenological and Etymological Conceptions of Timing (Shi) |
| Summary |
"Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lushi chunqiu) inspired the king who united the warring states to become China's first emperor. In this work on the Lushi chunqiu, author James Sellmann finds that the concept of "proper timing" makes the work's diverse philosophies coherent. He discusses the life and times of its author, Lu Buwei, and the structure of the work. Sellmann also analyzes the role of human nature, the justification of the state, and the significance of cosmic, historical, and personal timing in the Lushi chunqiu. An organic instrumentalist position begins to emerge from the diverse theories of the Lushi chunqiu. In conclusion, Sellmann looks at the implications of the syncretic philosophies of the Lushi chunqiu for contemporary conceptions of time, human nature, political order, and social and environmental ethics."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Lü shi chun qiu. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82051127
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Lü shi chun qiu fast |
| Subject |
Chinese literature.
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RELIGION -- Confucianism.
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Chinese literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585499675 |
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9780585499673 |
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079145231X |
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9780791452318 |
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0791452328 |
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9780791452325 |
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9780791489260 |
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0791489264 |
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