Emerson and Neo-Confucianism : Crossing Paths Over the Pacific / Yoshio Takanashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takanashi, Yoshio, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Knowledge and learning--Nature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Zhu, Xi, 1130-1200.

Nature.

Zhu, Xi, 1130-1200--Criticism and interpretation.

Zhu, Xi.

Neo-Confucianism in literature.

Transcendentalism in literature.

Nature in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 193 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Emerson and Neo Confucianism

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Nature, "The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference." The great Chinese synthesizer of Neo-Confucian philosophy, Zhu Xi, expressed a similar idea in the twelfth century: "In the realm of Heaven and Earth it is this moral principle alone that flows everywhere." Emerson and Zhu Xi, though living in different ages and cultures, traced human morality to the same source in the ultimate moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind. This book offers a comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Neo-Confucianism, Japan, and "nature is principle": foundations for a comparison of Emerson and Zhu Xi

The fundamental principle and the generation of the universe

Cosmic law and human ethics

Realization of the self.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137332929

1137332921

OCLC:

857288135