On ethics and history: essays and letters of Zhang Xuecheng
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Main Author: Zhang, Xuecheng (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press ©2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index
On the dao -- On learning -- A treatise on teachers -- Conventional convictions -- The difficulty of being understood -- The analogy of heaven -- Breadth and economy -- Virtue in an historian -- Virtue in a litterateur -- The principles of literature -- Distinguishing what only seems to be -- Letter on learning to Zhu Cangmei of the grand secretariat -- Letter on learning to my clansman Runan -- Reply to Shen Zaiting discussing learning -- Letter on learning to Chen Jianting -- Appendix : three works by Han Yu
Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) has primary 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 187 pages)
ISBN:0804772886
9780804772884

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