The trouble with Confucianism / Wm. Theodore De Bary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Bary, William Theodore, 1919-

Series:

Tanner lectures on human values : 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism.

Neo-Confucianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of East and Southeast Asia, as well as China, people are asking, "What does Confucianism have to offer today?" For some, Confucius is still the symbol of a reactionary and repressive past; for others, he is the humanist admired by generations of scholars and thinkers, East and West, for his ethical system and discipline. In the face of such complications, only a scholar of Theodore de Bary's stature could venture broad answers to the question of the significance of Confucianism in today's world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1 Sage-Kings and Prophets

2 The Noble Man in the Analects

3 Imperial Sages and Confucian Noble Men

4 Autocracy and the Prophetic Message in Orthodox Neo- Confucianism

5 Fang Tung-shu, a Prophetic Voice in the Early Modern Age

6 The Prophet and the People

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

"Some of the material in chapters 1, 3, 4, and 6 originally appeared in the Tanner lectures on human values, vol. 10"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-126) and index.

ISBN:

9780674030312

0674030311

OCLC:

923110484