The Confucian Quest for Order
Subtitle: The Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xun Zi (Sinica Leidensia)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: March 2003
Language: eng; chi
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9789004129658
Subjects: Asian studies; Political ideologies; Social & political philosophy; Sociology; Interior Design - General; Xunzi,; Confucianism; Social Science; Religion - World Religions; History: World; China; Philosophy; General; Xunzi; 340-245 B.C; 340-245 B.C.; Political science
Description: "Xun Zi, one of the principal thinkers of the pre-imperial period and as such still widely read, ought to appear on any reading list on Chinese intellectual history. Sato's volume deals with the origin and formation of Xun Zi's political thought, with close focus on the intellectual activity of the Jixia Academy and its impact on this synthesizer's theory on rituals and social norms. The author convincingly deals with the problems of textual authenticity and biography. The main part of the work treats the shift of intellectual inquiry from an argument of ethical matters to an analysis of the principle(s) of socio-political mechanism, thus showing Xun Zi as a formative synthesizer of the two main streams of early Chinese intellectual discourse."--Jacket.