Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Title | Confucianism and the Chinese Self PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Barbalet |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2017-10-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9811062897 |
Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China.
Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Title | Confucianism and the Chinese Self PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Barbalet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9789811062902 |
Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber's celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber's writings on 'the rise of modern capitalism'. Notably it subjects Weber's argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber's discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber's RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the?little dragons? of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the?big dragons? of Japan and the People's Republic of China.
Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Title | Confucianism and the Chinese Self PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Barbalet |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2017-10-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9789811062889 |
Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China.
Confucian Ethics
Title | Confucian Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Kwong-Loi Shun |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2004-09-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521796576 |
A comparative study of the Confucian and Western view of the self.
Humanity and Self-cultivation
Title | Humanity and Self-cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | Wei-ming Tu |
Publisher | Cheng & Tsui |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780887273179 |
This first paperback edition of a renowned collection of essays by noted scholar of Chinese history and philosophy Tu Wei-ming includes a new introductory essay by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of
Thinking from the Han
Title | Thinking from the Han PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Hall |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791436134 |
Examines the issues of self (including gender), truth, and transcendence in classical Chinese and Western philosophy.
Confucian Moral Self Cultivation
Title | Confucian Moral Self Cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | P. J. Ivanhoe |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780872205086 |
A concise and accessible introduction to the evolution of the concept of moral self-cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition, this volume begins with an explanation of the pre-philosophical development of ideas central to this concept, followed by an examination of the specific treatment of self cultivation in the philosophy of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Xunzi, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, Yan Yuan and Dai Zhen. In addition to providing a survey of the views of some of the most influential Confucian thinkers on an issue of fundamental importance to the tradition, Ivanhoe also relates their concern with moral self-cultivation to a number of topics in the Western ethical tradition. Bibliography and index are included.