Philip J Ivanhoe: 4 books
Confucian Reflections
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is about the early Chinese Confucian classic the "Analects" Lunyu, attributed to the founder of the Confucian tradition, Kongzi (551-479 bce) and who is more commonly referred to as "Confucius" in the West. Philip J. Ivanhoe...
Oneness
East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
At the center of a constellation of key ideas in East Asian philosophical traditions, there lies a conception of oneness among human beings. Human beings are intricately and inextricably intertwined and share a common destiny with other people, creatures, and things. The ramifications of this idea...
On Ethics and History
Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's...
Three Streams
Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
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...