Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China - Li Fu and the Lu-Wang School Under the Ch''ing

Klappentext This book explains the general intellectual climate of the early Ch'ing period! and the political and cultural characteristics of the Ch'ing regime at the time. Professor Huang brings to life the book's central characters! Li Fu and the three great emperors he served: K'ang-hsi! Yung-cheng! and Chien-lung. Although the author's main concern is to explain the contributions of Li Fu to the Lu-Wang school of Confucianism! he also gives a clear! succinct account of the Lu-Wang and Ch'eng-Chu schools from the twelfth century to the eighteenth. Zusammenfassung The author explains the contributions of Li Fu to the Lu-Wang school of Confucianism! and gives a clear! succinct account of the Lu-Wang and Ch'eng-Chu schools from the twelfth century to the eighteenth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The original argument (1): 'Chu Hsi versus Lu Hsiang-shan' (Chu-Lu i T'ung): a philosophical interpretation; 2. The original argument (2): Wang Yang-ming and the problematic of 'Chu Hsi versus Lu Hsiang-shan'; 3. The critical dimension in the Confucian mode of thinking: the conception of the Way as the basis for criticism of the political establishment; 4. Li Fu: an example of the Lu-Wang scholar in the Ch'ing (1): his life; 5. Li Fu: an example of the Lu-Wang scholar in the Ch'ing (2): his thought; 6. Li Fu and the philological turn; 7. The price of having a sage-emperor: the assimilation of the Tradition of the Way by the political establishment in the light of Emperor K'ang-hsi's governance.

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• Authors: C. S. Huang, C. S. (Academia Sinica Huang, Chin-shing Huang
• Assisted by: Patrick Hannan (Editor), Denis Twitchett (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2003
• EAN: 9780521529464
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52946-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions; Cambridge Studies in Chinese H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy