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Images of Human Nature - A Sung Portrait (Hardcover)
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Images of Human Nature - A Sung Portrait (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early
and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the
doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi
(1130-1200). For nearly six centuries Confucian orthodoxy was based
on Chu Hsi's commentaries on Confucian classics. These commentaries
were the core of the curriculum studied by candidates for the civil
service in China until 1905 and provided guidelines both for
personal behavior and for official policy. Munro finds the key to
the complexities of Chu Hsi's thought in his mode of discourse: the
structural images of family, stream of water, mirror, body, plant,
and ruler. Furthermore, he discloses the basic framework of Chu
Hsi's ethics and the theory of human nature that is provided by
these illustrative images. As revealed by Munro, Chu Hsi's thought
is polarized between family duty and a broader altruism and between
obedience to external authority and self-discovery of moral truth.
To understand these tensions moves us toward clarifying the meaning
of each idea in the sets. The interplay of these ideas, selectively
emphasized over time by later Confucians, is a background for
explaining modern Chinese thought. In it, among other things,
Confucianism and Marxism-Leninism co-exist. Originally published in
1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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