On ethics and history
Subtitle: essays and letters of Zhang Xuecheng
By: translated and with an introduction by Philip J. Ivanhoe.
Contributors: Ivanhoe, P. J.; Han, Yu, 768-824.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780804761284
Subjects: Zhang, Xuecheng, -- 1738-1801 -- Correspondence; Zhang, Xuecheng, -- 1738-1801 -- Ethics; History -- Philosophy; China -- Historiography
Genres: Correspondence
Description: Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) has primary been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the dao; title: On learning; title: A treatise on teachers; title: Conventional convictions; title: The difficulty of being understood; title: The analogy of heaven; title: Breadth and economy; title: Virtue in an historian; title: Virtue in a litterateur; title: The principles of literature; title: Distinguishing what only seems to be; title: Letter on learning to Zhu Cangmei of the grand secretariat; title: Letter on learning to my clansman Runan; title: Reply to Shen Zaiting discussing learning; title: Letter on learning to Chen Jianting; title: Appendix : three works by Han Yu.