Chenyang Li's The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony (Routledge Studies in PDF

By Chenyang Li

ISBN-10: 0415844746

ISBN-13: 9780415844741

ISBN-10: 1138962155

ISBN-13: 9781138962156

Harmony is an idea necessary to Confucianism and to the way of living of prior and current humans in East Asia. Integrating tools of textual exegesis, ancient research, comparative research, and philosophical argumentation, this publication offers a entire remedy of the Confucian philosophy of concord.



The booklet strains the roots of the idea that to antiquity, examines its next improvement, and explicates its theoretical and functional value for the modern global. It argues that, opposite to a typical view within the West, Confucian concord isn't mere contract yet should be completed and maintained with inventive stress. lower than the impression of a Weberian studying of Confucianism as "adjustment" to an international with an underlying fastened cosmic order, Confucian concord has been systematically misinterpreted within the West as presupposing an invariable grand scheme of items that pre-exists on this planet to which humanity has to comply. The booklet exhibits that Confucian concord is a dynamic, generative procedure, which seeks to stability and reconcile transformations and conflicts via creativity.



Illuminating essentially the most very important recommendations in chinese language philosophy and highbrow background, this e-book is of curiosity to scholars of chinese language experiences, historical past and philosophy often and japanese philosophy in particular.

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