The Confucian Quest for Order

The Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xun Zi

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ID19928487
AuthorsMasayuki Sato (0000-0003-2734-296X, corresponding author)
Year2003
Publication date2003-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Confucian Quest for Order (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004420328
OpenAlexW4251770782
ISBN9789004420328
LanguageEN
Citations received26

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. Dr. 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

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Biography · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Formative assessment · Intellectual development · Intellectual history · Literature · Order (exchange) · Pedagogy · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Principal (computer security) · Reading (process) · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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