Tsai-chun, Chung: The development of the concept of heaven and of man in the philosophy of Chu Hsi

popis: The purpose of this book is to investigate the process through which Chu Hsi formulated a new metaphysics, one which, in contrast with that of Buddhism, provided the foundation for a world-view characterized by morality. Before the rise of Neo-Confucianism, Chinese philosophy was dominated by the Subjective Idealism of Ch’an. Neo-Confucianism arose with the task of defending the validity of social and inter-personal morality, and for this purpose Northern Sung Neo-Confucianism proposed the metaphysics of Immanent Vitalism. Chu Hsi's philosophical enquiry started with an Eclecticism which was the combination of Ch’an and Immanent Vitalism. From his late twenties, Chu Hsi gradually rejected the Ch’an element in his philosophy as a result of his apprenticeship with Li T’ung.
Nevertheless, while trying to approach the Way subjectively, Chu Hsi found that Immanent Vitalism was defective in dealing with selfcultivation. So, during the period from his thirtyseventh year to his forty-fourth, Chu Hsi struggled to revise this philosophy. One of the characteristics of his metaphysics which resulted from this revision was that Man was not only a function of Heaven, as the cosmic life-principle, but was also a subject, and, because he had Mind, was self-determining and had the capacity to establish substance and functions in his own right.
autor/autori: Tsai-chun, Chungvydal: Institute of Chinese, 1993číslo produktu: 10206076dodanie: v SR: od 2 €, pri objednávkach cez obooks.sk osobný odber 2x Bratislava (0 €), na 500+ PickUp pointoch (od 2 €) ; v ČR: dodanie od 75 Kč a osobný odber v 2000+ miestach; v EU a svet: platba vopred, poštovné podľa váhypoznámka: Fotografia je ilustračný obrázok, použitý produkt môže vykazovať známky menšieho, alebo väčšieho použitia, nemusí mať prebal ak ho mal pri výrobe, prílohy a odnímateľné časti. Poskytujeme plnú záruku na vnútro knihy, t.j. je prevedená ručná kontrola chýbajúcich strán a ich čistoty.

popis: The purpose of this book is to investigate the process through which Chu Hsi formulated a new metaphysics, one which, in contrast with that of Buddhism, provided the foundation for a world-view characterized by morality. Before the rise of Neo-Confucianism, Chinese philosophy was dominated by the Subjective Idealism of Ch’an. Neo-Confucianism arose with the task of defending the validity of social and inter-personal morality, and for this purpose Northern Sung Neo-Confucianism proposed t...