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This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the Confucian
thinker Xunzi and his work, which shares the same name. It features
a variety of disciplinary perspectives and offers divergent
interpretations. The disagreements reveal that, as with any other
classic, the Xunzi provides fertile ground for readers. It is a
source from which they have drawn-and will continue to
draw-different lessons. In more than 15 essays, the contributors
examine Xunzi's views on topics such as human nature, ritual,
music, ethics, and politics. They also look at his relations with
other thinkers in early China and consider his influence in East
Asian intellectual history. A number of important Chinese scholars
in the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) sought to censor the Xunzi. They
thought that it offered a heretical and impure version of
Confuciansim. As a result, they directed study away from the Xunzi.
This has diminished the popularity of the work. However, the essays
presented here help to change this situation. They open the text's
riches to Western students and scholars. The book also highlights
the substantial impact the Xunzi has had on thinkers throughout
history, even on those who were critical of it. Overall, readers
will gain new insights and a deeper understanding of this
important, but often neglected, thinker.
This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the
ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive,
sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian
thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the
Xunzi presents a more systematic vision of the Confucian ideal than
the fragmented sayings of Confucius and Mencius, articulating a
Confucian perspective on ethics, politics, warfare, language,
psychology, human nature, ritual, and music, among other topics.
Aimed at general readers and students of Chinese thought, Eric
Hutton's translation makes the full text of this important work
more accessible in English than ever before. Named for its
purported author, the Xunzi (literally, "Master Xun") has long been
neglected compared to works such as the Analects of Confucius and
the Mencius. Yet interest in the Xunzi has grown in recent decades,
and the text presents a much more systematic vision of the
Confucian ideal than the fragmented sayings of Confucius and
Mencius. In one famous, explicit contrast to them, the Xunzi argues
that human nature is bad. However, it also allows that people can
become good through rituals and institutions established by earlier
sages. Indeed, the main purpose of the Xunzi is to urge people to
become as good as possible, both for their own sakes and for the
sake of peace and order in the world. In this edition, key terms
are consistently translated to aid understanding and line numbers
are provided for easy reference. Other features include a concise
introduction, a timeline of early Chinese history, a list of
important names and terms, cross-references, brief explanatory
notes, a bibliography, and an index.
This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the Confucian
thinker Xunzi and his work, which shares the same name. It features
a variety of disciplinary perspectives and offers divergent
interpretations. The disagreements reveal that, as with any other
classic, the Xunzi provides fertile ground for readers. It is a
source from which they have drawn-and will continue to
draw-different lessons. In more than 15 essays, the contributors
examine Xunzi's views on topics such as human nature, ritual,
music, ethics, and politics. They also look at his relations with
other thinkers in early China and consider his influence in East
Asian intellectual history. A number of important Chinese scholars
in the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) sought to censor the Xunzi. They
thought that it offered a heretical and impure version of
Confuciansim. As a result, they directed study away from the Xunzi.
This has diminished the popularity of the work. However, the essays
presented here help to change this situation. They open the text's
riches to Western students and scholars. The book also highlights
the substantial impact the Xunzi has had on thinkers throughout
history, even on those who were critical of it. Overall, readers
will gain new insights and a deeper understanding of this
important, but often neglected, thinker.
This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the
ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive,
sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian
thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the
Xunzi presents a more systematic vision of the Confucian ideal than
the fragmented sayings of Confucius and Mencius, articulating a
Confucian perspective on ethics, politics, warfare, language,
psychology, human nature, ritual, and music, among other topics.
Aimed at general readers and students of Chinese thought, Eric
Hutton's translation makes the full text of this important work
more accessible in English than ever before. Named for its
purported author, the Xunzi (literally, "Master Xun") has long been
neglected compared to works such as the Analects of Confucius and
the Mencius. Yet interest in the Xunzi has grown in recent decades,
and the text presents a much more systematic vision of the
Confucian ideal than the fragmented sayings of Confucius and
Mencius. In one famous, explicit contrast to them, the Xunzi argues
that human nature is bad. However, it also allows that people can
become good through rituals and institutions established by earlier
sages. Indeed, the main purpose of the Xunzi is to urge people to
become as good as possible, both for their own sakes and for the
sake of peace and order in the world. In this edition, key terms
are consistently translated to aid understanding and line numbers
are provided for easy reference. Other features include a concise
introduction, a timeline of early Chinese history, a list of
important names and terms, cross-references, brief explanatory
notes, a bibliography, and an index.
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