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On ethics and history : essays and letters of Zhang Xuecheng

By Zhang , Xuecheng; Han , Yu; Ivanhoe , P. J.; Zhang , Xuecheng

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0804761280, 978-0-8047-6128-4, 9780804772884, 0804772886, 133-138-140-1
Language
englishchinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1491096 bytes)
Pages
187\208
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's essays and letters should challenge our current understanding of this Qing dynasty philosopher. On Ethics and History also contains translations of three important essays written by Tang-dynasty Confucian Han Yu and shows how Zhang responded to Han's earlier works. Those with an interest in ethical philosophy, religion, and Chinese thought and culture will find still relevant much of what Zhang argued for in his own day.

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