Xu / Elstein The Chinese Liberal Spirit

Selected Writings of Xu Fuguan
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8718-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 351 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Translating China

The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xu, Fuguan

Elstein, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Language

Preface: My Father
Hsu Woochun (Xu Wujun)

Introduction
David Elstein

Part I: Autographical Essays

1. My Life of Study

2. The End of Democratic Review

3. Mourning My Enemy, Mourning My Friend

Part II: Ethical and Political Thought

4. Two Layers of the Chinese Political Problem

5. The Construction and Advancement of Ruist Political Thought

6. The Fundamental Character of the Ruist Spirit, Its Limitations, and Its Rebirth

7. The Chinese Way of Governance—After Reading Collected Writings of Master Lu Xuan

8. Between Academia and Politics

9. The Culture of the Heart-Mind

10. The Creation of the Chinese Free Society

11. The Ruist Distinction between Cultivating Oneself and Governing Others and Its Significance

12. Why Oppose Liberalism?

13. The Fundamental Structure of Mengzi's Political Thought and the Problem of Rule of Man and Rule of Law

14. The Origin of Kongzi's Idea of Rule by Virtue

15. The Question of Ruist and Daoist Personal Cultivation in Literature

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Elstein is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the editor of Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy and the author of Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy.