Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects
Written by the most important scholars in contemporary Confucian studies, these approachable essays focus on the relevance of Confucius’s ideas to modern living, with special attention given to the Analects, his seminal text. Topics covered include tradition and creativity, grief and mourning, the doctrine of correcting names, Confucian kungfu, and moral cultivation.
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Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects
Written by the most important scholars in contemporary Confucian studies, these approachable essays focus on the relevance of Confucius’s ideas to modern living, with special attention given to the Analects, his seminal text. Topics covered include tradition and creativity, grief and mourning, the doctrine of correcting names, Confucian kungfu, and moral cultivation.
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Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects

Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects

Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects

Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects

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Written by the most important scholars in contemporary Confucian studies, these approachable essays focus on the relevance of Confucius’s ideas to modern living, with special attention given to the Analects, his seminal text. Topics covered include tradition and creativity, grief and mourning, the doctrine of correcting names, Confucian kungfu, and moral cultivation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812696103
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date: 02/28/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction   David Jones     ix
The Text and Its Spirituality
Discovering the Analects   Herbert Fingarette     1
Walking the Way In-Between with Confucius: Tianwen and Emerging Patterns of Human Heavens   David Jones     13
Thinking Through Confucius
Paronomasia: A Confucian Way of Making Meaning   Roger T. Ames     37
Confucius on Form and Uniqueness   James Behuniak, Jr.     49
Three Corners for One: Tradition and Creativity in the Analects   Sor-hoon Tan     59
Self-Cultivation in Confucius
The "Golden Rule" in the Analects   Philip J. Ivanhoe     81
Crafts and Virtues: The Paradox of Wu-wei in the Analects   Edward Slingerland     109
Slowing Death Down: Mourning in the Analects   Amy Olberding     137
Spiritual Cultivation in Confucius
An Unintegrated Life Is Not Worth Living   Henry Rosemont, Jr.     153
Gongfu-A Vital Dimension of Confucian Teaching   Peimin Ni     167
The Ren Dao of Confucius: A Spiritual Account of Humanity   Mary I. Bockover     189
Moral Cultivation in Confucius
Zhu Xi and the Lunyu   Kwong-loi Shun     209
Analects 13.3 and the Doctrine of "Correcting Names"   Hui-chieh Loy     223
Master and Disciple in the Analects   Jeffrey L. Richey     243
Confucius: The Organization of Chinese Society   Ronald Suleski     253
Contributors     291
Index     297
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