Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E. 9780824862572
This ambitious work focuses on the world of Chinese thought during the two and a half centuries directly preceding and p
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Translation, Terms, and Quotations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Sources of Chunqiu Thought
Chapter 2. Heaven and Man Part Ways: Changing Attitudes Toward Divine Authority
Chapter 3. The Universal Panacea: Ritual and Preserving Hierarchical Order
Chapter 4. The World Falls Apart: A Futile Search for International Order
Chapter 5. When a Minister Mounts the Ruler: Chunqiu Views of Loyalty
Chapter 6. Nobility of Blood and Spirit: Chunqiu Ethical Thought
Chapter 7. The Chunqiu Legacy
Appendix 1: Grammatical Change in the Zuo: Case Studies of the “Yu” and “Qi” Particles
Appendix 2: Zhanguo Data in the Zuo
Appendix 3: Comparing Scribal Accounts in the Zuo
Appendix 4: Spurious Speeches and Interpolations in the Zuo
Notes
List of Chunqiu Personalities
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
