Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Confucianism and the Chinese Self

Author: Jack Barbalet

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9811062897

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Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China.

Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Confucianism and the Chinese Self

Author: Jack Barbalet

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9789811062902

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Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber's celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber's writings on 'the rise of modern capitalism'. Notably it subjects Weber's argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber's discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber's RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the?little dragons? of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the?big dragons? of Japan and the People's Republic of China.

Self-Realization through Confucian Learning
Self-Realization through Confucian Learning

Author: Siufu Tang

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2016-07-29

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1438461496

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Confucian philosopher Xunzi’s moral thought is considered in light of the modern focus on self-realization. Self-Realization through Confucian Learning reconstructs Confucian thinker Xunzi’s moral philosophy in response to the modern focus on self-realization. Xunzi (born around 310 BCE) claims that human xing (“nature” or “native conditions”) is without an ethical framework and has a tendency to dominate, leading to bad judgments and bad behavior. Confucian ritual propriety (li) is needed to transform these human native conditions. Through li, people become self-directing: in control of feelings and desires and in command of their own lives. Siufu Tang explicates Xunzi’s understanding of the hierarchical structure of human agency to articulate why and how li is essential to self-realization. Ritual propriety also structures relationships to make a harmonious communal life possible. Tang’s focus on self-realization highlights how Confucianism can address the individual as well as the communal and serve as a philosophy for contemporary times.

Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Confucianism and the Chinese Self

Author: Jack Barbalet

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9789811062889

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Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China.

Confucian Ethics
Confucian Ethics

Author: Kwong-Loi Shun

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-09-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780521796576

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A comparative study of the Confucian and Western view of the self.

Humanity and Self-cultivation
Humanity and Self-cultivation

Author: Wei-ming Tu

Publisher: Cheng & Tsui

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780887273179

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This first paperback edition of a renowned collection of essays by noted scholar of Chinese history and philosophy Tu Wei-ming includes a new introductory essay by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of

Thinking from the Han
Thinking from the Han

Author: David L. Hall

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780791436134

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Examines the issues of self (including gender), truth, and transcendence in classical Chinese and Western philosophy.

Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond
Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond

Author: Fenggang Yang

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-11-11

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 9004212396

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Confucianism is reviving in China and spreading in America. This multidisciplinary volume includes philosophical and theological articulations of Confucianism and other spiritual traditions for the modern and globalizing world, and empirical studies of and analytical reflections on Confucianism and other traditions in Chinese societies by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists.

Confucian Thought
Confucian Thought

Author: Tu Wei-ming

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1985-06-30

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1438422407

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Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation is a collection of Tu's seminal essays. It is a sustained deliberation on the substance and worth of the Confucian conception of personhood. This analysis complements Tu's highly acclaimed Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought as a continued expression of his deepening understanding of Confucianism voiced through various perennial human concerns. Tu weaves philosophic, historical, anthropological, sociological, and psychological perspectives into a coherent discussion of the Confucian themes that continue to inspire the modern intellectual mind. His is a vital contribution to Chinese thought and religion.

Way, Learning, and Politics
Way, Learning, and Politics

Author: Wei-ming Tu

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780791417751

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Tu (Chinese history and philosophy, Harvard U.) offers a panoramic view of the core values of Confucian intellectual thought that have kept it vital for more than two millennia, and underlie the recent resurgence in eastern Asia. Of interest to students of either China or religion and ethics. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR