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Human nature, ritual, and history : studies in Xunzi and Chinese philosophy / by Antonio S. Cua.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2005.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 406 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813215976
Other title:
  • Studies in Xunzi and Chinese philosophy
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B128 .H863 2005
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Philosophy of human nature -- Dimensions of Li -- Ethical uses of the past -- The problem of conceptual unity -- The unity of virtues -- The possibility of ethical knowledge -- The ethical and the religious dimensions of Li -- Ethical significance of shame: insights of Aristotle and Xunzi -- part 2. Other studies in Chinese philosophy -- Practical causation and Confucian ethics -- Moral theory and the quality of life -- Confucian vision and the human community -- Ethical significance of Thomé H. Fang's philosophy -- Reason and principle in Chinese philosophy -- Emergence of the history of Chinese philosophy -- Xin (mind/heart) and moral failure: notes on an aspect of Mencius's moral psychology.
Review: "In this volume, distinguished philosopher Antonio S. Cua offers a collection of original studies on Xunzi, a leading classical Confucian thinker, and on other aspects of Chinese philosophy. While each essay individually makes an important contribution to the study of Chinese philosophy, the book as a whole represents a major scholarly achievement."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

part 1. Xunzi's moral philosophy -- Philosophy of human nature -- Dimensions of Li -- Ethical uses of the past -- The problem of conceptual unity -- The unity of virtues -- The possibility of ethical knowledge -- The ethical and the religious dimensions of Li -- Ethical significance of shame: insights of Aristotle and Xunzi -- part 2. Other studies in Chinese philosophy -- Practical causation and Confucian ethics -- Moral theory and the quality of life -- Confucian vision and the human community -- Ethical significance of Thomé H. Fang's philosophy -- Reason and principle in Chinese philosophy -- Emergence of the history of Chinese philosophy -- Xin (mind/heart) and moral failure: notes on an aspect of Mencius's moral psychology.

"In this volume, distinguished philosopher Antonio S. Cua offers a collection of original studies on Xunzi, a leading classical Confucian thinker, and on other aspects of Chinese philosophy. While each essay individually makes an important contribution to the study of Chinese philosophy, the book as a whole represents a major scholarly achievement."--Jacket.

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