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Author Zhu, Yi-Ting

Title A panoramic history of traditional Chinese ethics / Yi-ting Zhu
Published Singapore : Springer, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 337 pages)
Contents The Birth of Traditional Chinese Ethics in West Zhou (1046–771 BC) -- Ethics in Chun-Qiu & Warring States Eras -- Ethical Thought in Han Dynasty -- “Respect Only Confucianism” -- Ethical Thought in the Wei & Jin Period -- Ethical Thought from the South & North Dynasties to Sui & Tang -- Ethical Thought in the Song Dynasty -- Ethical Thought in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Summary This book traces the trajectory of traditional Chinese ethics from West Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) through Qing Dynasty (1616—1912) and covers a myriad of Chinese philosophers who have expressed their ideas about the relationships between Heavenly Dao vs. Earthly Dao, Good vs. Evil, Morality vs. Legality, Knowledge vs. Behavior, Motive vs. Result, Righteousness vs. Profitability, Rationality vs. Animality. In this book, the readers can find Confucius’s discussion on Rite and Benevolence, Lao Zi’s meditation on Inaction of Great Dao, Zhuang Zi’s elaboration on “Transcendental Freedom”, Mohist utilitarian “Universal Love”, and Mencian theory of “Primordial Good Humanity”, to name just a few phenomenal figures. A compact yet elaborate, panoramic yet profound guidebook to traditional Chinese ethical thought, this book is an excellent window to showcase traditional Chinese mental and spiritual legacy. Composed, translated, and proofread by brilliant scholars, it produces a fluent and coherent English discourse of Chinese morality and ethics, nimbly spinning together the threads of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and other ideological schools with brief references to the historical situation. Consequently, it provides English readers, especially those curious about Chinese psychology and rationality, with thought-provoking and horizon-expanding perspectives, and provides Chinese readers, especially those of philosophy and translation, with a great number of typical and characteristic quotes of archaic Chinese that have never been translated before. Ultimately, it is a fundamental threshold to learning about Chinese people, Chinese culture, Chinese morality, Chinese mentality, Chinese policy, and Chinese diplomacy
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 21, 2021)
Subject Ethics -- China -- History
Ethics
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789811612527
9811612528