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Author Lee, Pauline C

Title Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the virtue of desire / Pauline C. Lee
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages)
Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Contents Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the Virtue of Desire -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Life Stories: Reading A Sketch of Zhuowu: Written in Unnan -- 3. The Heart-Mind: Reading “On the Child-like Heart-Mind� -- 4. Virtue: Reading “Miscellaneous Matters� -- 5. Genuineness -- Appendix A: “A Sketch of Zhuowu: Written in Unnan� -- Appendix B: “On the Child-like Heart-Mind� -- Appendix C: “Miscellaneous Matters� -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F
G h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- x -- y -- z
Summary "Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a bestselling author with a devoted readership. His biting, shrewd, and visionary writings with titles like A Book to Hide and A Book to Burn were both inspiring and inflammatory. Widely read from his own time to the present, Li Zhi has long been acknowledged as an important figure in Chinese cultural history. While he is esteemed as a stinging social critic and an impassioned writer, Li Zhi's ideas have been dismissed as lacking a deeper or constructive vision. Pauline C. Lee convincingly shows us otherwise. Situating Li Zhi within the highly charged world of the late-Ming culture of "feelings," Lee presents his slippery and unruly yet clear and robust ethical vision. Li Zhi is a Confucian thinker whose consuming concern is a powerful interior world of abundance, distinctive to each individual: the realm of the emotions. Critical to his ideal of the good life is the ability to express one's feelings well. In the work's conclusion, Lee brings Li Zhi's insights into conversation with contemporary philosophical debates about the role of feelings, an ethics of authenticity, and the virtue of desire."--Pub. desc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Li, Zhi, 1527-1602.
SUBJECT Li, Zhi, 1527-1602 fast
Subject Desire (Philosophy)
Confucian ethics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Confucian ethics
Desire (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
Author Li, Zhi, 1527-1602. Miscellaneous matters. English
Li, Zhi, 1527-1602. On the child-like heart-mind. English
Li, Zhi, 1527-1602. Sketch of Zhuowu. English
ISBN 9781438439280
1438439288