The world of thought in ancient China
"The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture. Attention is accorded to pre-Confucian texts, to the evolution of early Confucianism, to Mo-Tzu, to the "Taoists" the legalists, the Ying-Yang school, the "five classics" as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools. The main focus is on the high cultural texts, but Mr. Schwartz also explores the question of the relationship of these texts to the vast realm of popular culture." -- Publisher
Print Book, English, 1985
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1985
490 pages ; 25 cm
9780674961906, 9780674961913, 0674961900, 0674961919
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Early cultural orientations: Issues and speculations
Early Chou thought: Continuity and breakthrough
Confucius: The vision of the Analects
Mo-tzu's challenge
The emergence of a common discourse: Some key terms
The ways of Taoism
The defense of the Confucian faith: Mencius and Hsun-tzu
Legalism: The behavioral science
Correlative cosmology: The "school of Yin and Yang"
The five classics
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