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Author Lai, Karyn L

Title An introduction to Chinese philosophy / Karyn L. Lai
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
Cambridge introductions to philosophy.
Contents Chinese philosophy -- Confucius and the Confucian concepts ren and li -- The cultivation of humanity in Confucian philosophy : Mencius and Xunzi -- Early Mohist philosophy -- Early Daoist philosophy : The Dao De Jing as a metaphysical treatise -- Early Daoist philosophy : dao, language and society -- The Mingjia and the later Mohists -- Zhuangzi's philosophy -- Legalist philosophy -- The Yijing and its place in Chinese philosophy -- Chinese Buddhism
Summary This introductory textbook to early Chinese philosophy covers a range of philosophical traditions which arose during the Spring and Autumn (722-476 BCE) and Warring States (475-221 BCE) periods in China, including Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism
Notes Includes index
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Subject Philosophy, Chinese.
Philosophy, Confucian.
Moism.
Taoist philosophy.
Moism
Philosophy, Chinese
Philosophy, Confucian
Taoist philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511423048
0511423047
9780511422386
0511422385