Research Catalog

Title

Li Yong (1627-1705) and epistemological dimensions of Confucian philosophy / Anne D. Birdwhistell.

Author

Birdwhistell, Anne D.

Publication

Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1996.

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Description

285 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This study has three separate but interrelated aims: to offer a methodological approach for comparative philosophy on the level of the philosophical system; to examine Confucian philosophy as a philosophical system, with emphasis on its epistemological dimensions; and to use the thought of a particular thinker as an example of how the Confucian tradition was appropriated by individual thinkers.
• The author demonstrates that Confucian philosophy was a social system in which ideas and actions gained philosophical meaning in reference to specific socio-historical contexts and to specific levels of society (from the Confucian tradition itself to the individual person).
• Throughout, the author employs insights from anthropological theory, notably the social theory of communication, and draws on Western philosophy to illuminate Confucian ideas and assumptions and to provide cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts.

Subjects

• Knowledge, Theory of
• Li, Yong, 1627-1705
• Confucianism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) and index.

Contents

1. Toward a Search Frame -- 2. The Learning of the Sages -- 3. To Teach -- 4. Li Yong's Teachings -- 5. To Learn -- 6. Concluding Observations.

ISBN

0804726051

LCCN

95031977

OCLC

• 32924251
• ocm32924251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries