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Three Streams - Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan (Hardcover)
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Three Streams - Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan (Hardcover)
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Recent interest in Confucianism has a tendency to suffer from
essentialism and idealism, manifested in a variety of ways. One
example is to think of Confucianism in terms of the views
attributed to one representative of the tradition, such as Kongzi
(Confucius) (551-479 BCE) or Mengzi (Mencius) (372 - 289 BCE) or
one school or strand of the tradition, most often the strand or
tradition associated with Mengzi or, in the later tradition, that
formed around the commentaries and interpretation of Zhu Xi
(1130-1200). Another such tendency is to think of Confucianism in
terms of its manifestations in only one country; this is almost
always China for the obvious reasons that China is one of the most
powerful and influential states in the world today. A third
tendency is to present Confucianism in terms of only one period or
moment in the tradition; for example, among ethical and political
philosophers, pre-Qin Confucianism-usually taken to be the writings
attributed to Kongzi, Mengzi, and, if we are lucky, Xunzi (479-221
BCE)-often is taken as "Confucianism." These and other forms of
essentialism and idealism have led to a widespread and deeply
entrenched impression that Confucianism is thoroughly homogenous
and monolithic (these often are "facts" mustered to support the
purportedly oppressive, authoritarian, and constricted nature of
the tradition); such impressions can be found throughout East Asia
and dominate in the West. This is quite deplorable for it gives us
no genuine sense of the creatively rich, philosophically powerful,
highly variegated, and still very much open-ended nature of the
Confucian tradition. This volume addresses this misconstrual and
misrepresentation of Confucianism by presenting a philosophically
critical account of different Confucian thinkers and schools,
across place (China, Korea, and Japan) and time (the 10th to 19th
centuries).
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