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The Confucian Creation of Heaven
- Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery
Engelsk Paperback
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- Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery
Engelsk Paperback

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Explores the earliest Confucian texts to find coherent structural principles linking the various facets of Confucian doctrine. Its central theme is that the coherence of early Confucianism emerges only when doctrine is viewed as a function of the unique ritual practice of the early Confucian community.

Demonstrating that the relation between practice and theory in early Confucianism is highly systematic, the author suggests that Confucianism represents a species of ''synthetic'' philosophy, distinct from the analytical traditions of the West but equally rigorous in its attempt to disclose the foundations of understanding. He illustrates how theory served as an ancillary activity, expressing ethical insights derived from the systematic structure of core ritual practice, and legitimizing those insights in terms of teleological model of their efficacy in creating a divinely ordained political utopia. The central agenda of the early Confucians is pictured as the preservation and promotion of ritual skills and the aesthetic social perspectives they generate. Metaphysical and political theory serve as practical vehicles mediating between the skill-based philosophy of the early Confucian community and the changing features of the intellectual, social, and political environments in which that community had to survive.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
349
ISBN-13:
9780791401910
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
079140191X
Udg. Dato:
1 jun 1990
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
1 jun 1990
Forfatter(e):
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