Emerson and Neo-Confucianism [electronic resource] : Crossing Paths over the Pacific /
Takanashi, Y.author.
A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human morality to the same source in the ultimately moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neo-Confucianism, Japan, and "nature is principle": foundations for a comparison of Emerson and Zhu Xi -- The fundamental principle and the generation of the universe -- Cosmic law and human ethics -- Realization of the self.
A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human morality to the same source in the ultimately moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Zhu, Xi, 1130-1200
Philosophy, Asian.
Literature.
Philosophy.
Religions.
America—Literatures.
Movement (Philosophy).
Non-Western Philosophy.
Literature, general.
History of Philosophy.
Comparative Religion.
North American Literature.
Philosophical Traditions.