Returning to Zhu Xi

Emerging Patterns within the Supreme Polarity

372 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the "great synthesizer" of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.Zhu Xi (1130-1200), the chief architect of neo-Confucian thought, affected a momentous transformation in Chinese philosophy. His ideas came to dominate Chinese intellectual life, including the educational and civil service systems, for centuries. Despite his influence, Zhu Xi is known as the "great synthesizer" and rarely appreciated as a thinker in his own right. This volume presents Zhu Xi as a major world philosopher, one who brings metaphysics and cosmology into attunement with ethical and social practice. Contributors from the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds explore Zhu Xi's unique thought and offer it to the Western philosophical imagination. Zhu Xi's vision is critical, intellectually rigorous, and religious, telling us how to live in the transforming world of li-the emergent, immanent, and coherent patternings of natural and human milieu.

• Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Weitere Religionen und Glaubensrichtungen Ostasiatische Religionen und spirituelle Überzeugungen
• ISBN: 9781438458380
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2016
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: SUNY Press
• Herausgegeben von: Jinli He, David Jones