Sellmann Timing and Rulership in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lüshi chunqiu)

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8926-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 277 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Explores proper timing and the arts of rulership in the work that inspired China's first emperor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sellmann, James D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note Concerning Conventions Used in This Book
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Lüshi chunqiu's Background and Foreground
Lü Buwei and the LSCQ
Season Timing (chunqiu) and the Nature of the LSCQ
The LSCQ's Impact
The Mythification of History
Chapter 2. The LSCQ's Programmatic Conceptions of Xing: Cultivating Desires in the Process of Life
The LSCQ's Seasonal Arrangement of Traditional Theories on Xing
Chapter 3. An Emergent Social Order
Human Character and Social Order: An Analogy
A Survey of Pre-Qin Organic and Instrumental Positions and Their Impact on the LSCQ
The LSCQ's Uniþed Eclectic Conception on the Origin and Role of the State: An Organic Instrumental Position
Chapter 4. Proper Timing in the Cosmic, Historical, and Moral Realms
Cosmic and Seasonal Proper Timing
Historical Proper Timing
Proper Timing in Moral and Interpersonal Relations
Chapter 5. Applying Proper Timing to Contemporary Issues
Is Social and Political Philosophy Culture Bound?
Contemporary Philosophy and the LSCQ
Appendix I. Phenomenological and Etymological Conceptions of Timing (Shi)
Appendix II. A Study of Xingming zhi Qing in the LSCQ: The Achievement of One's Character (Xing) in One's Natural Relations (Ming)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James D. Sellmann is Professor of Philosophy and Director of East Asian Studies at the University of Guam.