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Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy

by: Ivanhoe, Philip J.; Norden, Bryan W. Van

ISBN: 9780872207806 | 0872207803

Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Pub. Date: 2/15/2006

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

This new edition offers expanded selections from the works of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and Xunzi (Hsun Tzu); two new works, the dialogues 'Robber Zhi' and 'White Horse'; a concise general introduction; brief introductions to, and selective bibliographies for, each work; and four appendices that shed light on important figures, periods, texts, and terms in Chinese thought.

Preface

vii

Comparative Romanization Table

Map of China during the Spring and Autumn Period

Introduction

Selective Bibliography

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xviii

Kongzi (Confucius) ``The Analects''

Introduction and Translation by Edward Gilman Slingerland

(58)

Mozi

Introduction and Translation by Philip J. Ivanhoe

(56)

Mengzi (Mencius)

Introduction and Translation by Bryan W. Van Norden

115

(46)

Laozi (``The Daodejing'')

Introduction and Translation by Philip J. Ivanhoe

161

(46)

Zhuangzi

Introduction and Translation by Paul Kjellberg

207

(48)

Xunzi

Introduction and Translation by Eric L. Hutton

255

(56)

Han Feizi

Introduction and Translation by Joel Sahleen

311

(52)

SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS

Gongsun Longzi ``On the White Horse''

Introduction and Translation by Bryan W. Van Norden

363

(6)

Yangism ``Robber Zhi''

Introduction and Translation by Paul Kjellberg

369

(10)

APPENDICES

Important Figures

379

(6)

Important Periods

385

(2)

Important Texts

387

(2)

Important Terms

389

Philip J. Ivanhoe is Findlay Visiting Professor at Boston University. His publications include Confucian Moral Self Cultivation (Hackett, 2000); Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi (Hackett, 2000), co-edited with T. C. Kline III; Ethics in the Confucian Tradition (Hackett, 2002); Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi (Hackett, 2002), co-edited with Xiusheng Liu; and The Daodejing of Laozi (Hackett, 2003).Bryan W. Van Norden is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Vassar College. In addition to his book, Confucius and the Analects: New Essays (Oxford University Press, 2001), he has written, edited, and contributed to numerous works on Chinese thought.

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