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1 online resource (xi, 208 pages) : illustrations |
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Translations from the Asian Classics |
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Translations from the Asian classics.
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Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Ekken's Life and Thought; The Text in the Context of East Asian Confucianism; Material Force (Qi); Zhang Zai's Development of the Concept of Material Force; The Influence of the Monism of Qi of Luo Qinshun; Affirmation and Dissent: The Significance of the Record of Great Doubts; The Text in the Context of Tokugawa Japan; The Spread of Confucian Ideas and Values; Tradition and the Individual: The Importance of Dissent and the Centrality of Learning; Philosophical Debates Regarding Principle and Material Force |
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Reappropriating Tradition: Practical Learning and the Philosophy of QiInterpretations of Ekken's Philosophy of Qi; Confucian Cosmology: Organic Holism and Dynamic Vitalism; Confucian Cultivation: Harmonizing with Change and Assisting Transformation; The Significance of Qi as an Ecological Cosmology; Notes; PREFACE; PART I; On the Transmission of Confucian Thought; On Human Nature; On Bias, Discernment, and Selection; On Learning from What Is Close at Hand; The Indivisibility of the Nature of Heaven and Earth and One's Physical Nature; Acknowledging Differences with the Song Confucians |
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PART IIPartiality in the Learning of the Song Confucians; Reverence Within and Rightness Without; Influences from Buddhism and Daoism; The Supreme Ultimate; The Way and Concrete Things; Returning the World to Humaneness; Reverence and Sincerity; Reverence as the Master of the Mind; The Inseparability of Principle and Material Force; Notes; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714) was a prominent Japanese scholar who spread Neo-Confucian ideas and moral teachings throughout Japan. He was also known as the ""Aristotle of Japan"" for his studies of the natural world. Of his many writings, The Record of Great Doubts is the culmination of a lifetime of seeking a unified view of humans and nature. The text represents one of the central reflections in East Asian thought on the significance of qi ch'i, the material force coursing through all life, and is available here for the first time in English with a comprehensive introduc |
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Translated from the Japanese |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Japanese |
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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Ethics.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Conduct of life
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Ethics
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tucker, Mary Evelyn
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| LC no. |
2006025278 |
| ISBN |
9780231511292 |
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0231511299 |
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