A brief introduction to the study of human nature / Giulio Aleni ; translated and annotated by Thierry Meynard, Dawei Pan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aleni, Giulio, 1582-1649, author.

Contributor:

Pan, Dawei, translator.

Meynard, Thierry, translator.

Series:

Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 29.

Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history ; Volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.

Jesuits--Effect of philosophy on--China.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--Intellectual life--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Language Note:

Chinese and English with introduction in English.

Summary:

Thierry Meynard and Dawei Pan offer a highly detailed annotated translation of one of the major works of Giulio Aleni, a Jesuit missionary in China. Referred to by his followers as “Confucius from the West”, Aleni made his presence felt in the early modern encounter between China and Europe. The two translators outline the complexity of the intellectual challenges that Aleni faced and the extensive conceptual resources on which he built up a fine-grained framework with the aim of bridging the Chinese and Christian spiritual traditions.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Figures

Foreword: Reading Giulio Aleni’s A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature in Light of the Cursus Conimbricensis -“Urtext”

Mário S. de Carvalho

Introduction

Thierry Meynard, S.J., and Dawei Pan

A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature

Giulio Aleni

Preface to A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature

Cheng Yi

Preface to The Study of Human Nature

Qu Shisi

Foreword to The Study of Human Nature

Zhu Shiheng

First Juan of A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature

Second Juan of A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature

Third Juan of A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature

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Eighth Juan of A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-42987-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004429871 DOI