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The Mingjia & related texts / translated and annotated by Ian Johnston and Wang Ping.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Chinese--To 221 B.C.
- Philosophy, Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (lvii, 1119 pages))
- Edition:
- Bilingual edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- The Mingjia (School of Names) is a notional grouping of philosophers first recorded as such in the Shiji. Their identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues particularly involving the correct use of names. The origin of this concern is taken to be Lunyu XIII.3. The group, as listed in the Han Shu, comprised seven men living between the sixth and third centuries BC. Only four of these men have extant writings attributed to them (Deng Xi, Yin Wen, Hui Shi and Gongsun Long) and in three of these there are issues of authenticity. Nevertheless, it is an important group for an understanding of the development of pre-Qin philosophy as the men themselves and the concepts they explored feature prominently in the writings of the other schools. The present work contains four sections: (i) the extant writings of the four men; (ii) all significant references to them in other works up to the fourth century AD; (iii) other significant writing on the topics up to that time; and (iv) four appendices on specific issues concerning the school.
- Contents:
- Texts and translations
- Testimonia et fragmenta
- Related texts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [1089]-1107) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789882377875
- 9882377874
- OCLC:
- 1146233538
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