Late classical Chinese thought / Chris Fraser.

Late Classical Chinese Thought surveys prominent issues and outlooks during the culminating period of classical Chinese philosophy, the third century bc. The book presents novel, informative perspectives on Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, and other movements in early Chinese thought while al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fraser, Chris (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:	Oxford history of philosophy.
Subjects:	To 221 B.C Philosophy, Chinese > To 221 B.C. Philosophy, Chinese History of philosophy, philosophical traditions. Philosophy.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Historical Background
The Texts
Chapter Overview
1. The Way
Dào and Nature
Dào as 'Given' by Nature
Dào and People's 'Nature'
Dào as the 'Source'
The Craft Conception of Dào
Dào as a Cultural Construct
Pragmatic Pluralism about Dào
2. The State
Origin of the State
Methods of Rule
Legalism
Responses to Legalism
The Self-So Community
3. Ethics
Xúnzǐ: Social Roles, Propriety, and Duty
Role Ethics in the Guǎnzǐ
Nurturing Life
Sòng Xíng and 'Characteristic Desires'
Later Mohist Consequentialism
Rejecting 'Morality' to Follow Dào
Wandering in Dào and Virtue
4. Ethical Cultivation
Ethical Cultivation as a Social Project
Lǚ's Annals: Desire, Patterns, and Education
Xúnzǐ: Virtue through 'Transformation'
The Dào of Stillness
Psychology and Dào in the Zhuāngzǐ
5. Epistemology
Knowledge and Doubt in the Later Mohist Dialectics
Xúnzǐ on Epistemic Expertise
Epistemic Virtue in the Annals
'Understanding' and Scepticism in Zhuāngzǐ
6. Language and Logic
Correcting Names
Semantic Theory
Logic and Argumentation
Glossary
For Further Reading
Appendix: The Sources
Index.

Late classical Chinese thought / Chris Fraser.

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