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Carregando... Neo-Confucianism in Historyde Peter Bol
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book left me disheartened. The beginning was not bad and the first three chapters lived up to my expectations to some extent. The author outlines the development of Confucian political thought from the 8th to the 11th century and I could follow his thoughts satisfactorily. But in the remaining chapters 4-7 I fell off the wagon. Maybe Confucian political thought is just too alien to be dressed in English vocabulary. Maybe this book is for professional scholars, not for general readers. Or maybe I struggled because the author doesn't write very clearly and prefers to concentrate on esoteric philosophical ideas instead of practical government. In any event, this book made me question whether it makes any sense for a non-professional western reader to try to understand Confucianism. As portrayed in this book, its elusive political theory seems to be completely detached from the real world, which makes it very hard to understand what purpose it could serve apart from empty ritual. Even its moral side seems odd and incompatible with everyday concerns. This book did not clarify these matters, it only made me more confused, so I can't recommend it. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Where does Neo-Confucianism--a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it--fit into our story of China's history? This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of the middle period in China's history. The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)181.112Philosophy and Psychology Ancient, medieval and eastern philosophy Asian Far East and South Asia China & Korea Confucianism and Neo-ConfucianismClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: Sem avaliação.É você?Torne-se um autor do LibraryThing. |