The Many Lives of Yang Zhu : A Historical Overview / edited by Carine Defoort and Ting-mien Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Defoort, Carine, editor.

Lee, Ting-mien, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism.

Religion.

Yang, Zhu, active 4th century B.C--Sources.

Yang, Zhu.

Yang, Zhu, active 4th century B.C--In literature.

Yang, Zhu, active 4th century B.C.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]

Summary:

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Being and Becoming: The Many Portrayals of Yang Zhu

1. A Selection of Yang Zhu Portrayals

2. To Be or to Become: That Is the Question

Notes

1. Five Pre-Republican Portrayals of Yang Zhu

Introduction

1. Yang Zhu as a Disputer

2. Yang Zhu as a Heretic

3. Yang Zhu as a Prominent Figure

4. Yang Zhu as a Misleading Master

5. Yang Zhu as Reformer

Envoy: Yang Zhu as a Philosopher

I. From Warring States to Wei-Jin

2. Yang Zhu and Mozi as Critics of Unification Warfare

1. Mengzi's Advocacy of Unification Warfare and the Notion of Quan 權

2. Later Mohist Reclarification of the Mengzi's Terminologies

3. Revisiting the Yang Zhu Fragments and Early Juxtaposition of Yang Zhu and Mozi

Conclusion

3. Beyond Mencius's Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mozi: A Zhuangzian-Han Feizian Yang-Mo

1. How to Treat Contradictory Portrayals?

2. The Portrait of Yang-Mo as Disputers of Useless Words

3. Yang-Mo as Disputers versus Zeng-Shi as Practitioners

4. Interrelations between the Early Mentions of Yang-Mo

Appendix: Fragments with the Shared Motif of Uselessness and the Shared Contrast of "Disputers-Practitioners" or "Disputers-Practitioners-Experts"

4. Deconstructing "Hedonism": Understanding Yang Zhu in the Liezi

1. Recent Studies on Pleasure, Hedonism, and Carpe Diem in Premodern China

2. The Chapter's Various Types of Hedonism

3. Aspects of Philosophical Hedonism in the Chapter

II. From Tang to Ming

5. Yang Zhu's Role in Tang-Song Proto-daotong Discourse

1. Han Yu, the Yang-Mo Trope, and Proto-daotong Discourse

2. Northern Song Developments

3. Guwen and the Case of Zhiyuan

4. The Cheng Brothers and Lineage Discourse.

Conclusion

6. Yang Zhu's Role in the Construction of Zhu Xi's Daotong

1. Zhu Xi and Daotong

2. Yang Zhu as Daoist

3. Yang Zhu's Values Perpetuated through Buddhism

4. Buddhism as More Sophisticated than Yang-Mo

5. The Consequences of Being Off Target

6. Zhong: Balance or Middle?

7. Zhongyong

8. Deviant Teachings

7. Plucking Hairs and Shaving Heads: Li Zhi's Repudiation of Yang Zhu

1. Puzzles in Li Zhi's "Self-Evaluation"

His will is focused just on keeping warm and well-fed but he describes himself as Bo Yi or Shu Qi 志在溫 伯夷叔

He has the same substance as that man from Qi, but he describes himself as having partaken fully in the Way and being replete with Virtue. 本 人 德。

Clearly he would not give so much as a blade of grass to anyone, but he uses You Shen as an excuse. 分明一介不 以有 口

Clearly he would not pluck out the smallest hair, while yet describing Yang Zhu as a violator of |benevolence. 分明 毛不拔 楊朱 仁。

What he does, goes against things

what he says contradicts what is in their hearts. 動 物 口 心 。

2. Frugality versus Stinginess

3. Li Zhi and the Problem of Self-Interest

III. From the Qing Dynasty Onward

8. The Birth of the Image of the "Egoist-Epicurean Philosopher" Yang Zhu during the Meiji Period

1. The Beginning of the "Discipline of Oriental Philosophy" and the Advent of Yang Zhu as a "Philosopher"

2. The Study of Yang Zhu by Young Scholars of Chinese Philosophy in the Meiji Twenties

3. Takase Takejirō's Philosophies of Yang Zhu and Mozi

9. Struggling between Tradition and Modernity: Liang Qichao's Portrayal of Yang Zhu in the Early Twentieth Century

From "Heretic" to "Egoist".

The Shifted Focus from "Yang-Mo" to "Lao-Yang"

The "Poisonous" Thoughts of Lao and Yang

2. From an "Egoist" to a "Philosopher"

Reading Yang Zhu with "Power and Benefit"

Reading Yang Zhu with the Democratic Concept of "People's Authority"

Reading Yang Zhu with "the Consciousness of Rights"

10. Feng Youlan and Yang Zhu: The Shifting Discursive Space (1920-80)

1. Yang Zhu in A Comparative Study of Life Ideals (1923)

2. Yang Zhu in A History of Chinese Philosophy (1931, 1934)

3. Yang Zhu in Xinyuandao 新原 (A New Treatise on the Nature of Dao) (1945)

4. Yang Zhu in A History of Chinese Philosophy (New Trial Edition) (1962‒64)

5. Yang Zhu in A History of Chinese Philosophy (New Edition, 1980)

Conclusion: The Idea of the Self and Feng Youlan's Treatments of Yang Zhu

11. Three Dimensions of Yang Zhu Research in the Twentieth Century: Hu Shi, Meng Wentong, and Guan Feng

1. Hu Shi: Yang Zhu Can Promote China's Progress

2. Meng Wentong: Reconstructing the Yangist Genealogy

3. Guan Feng: Yang Zhu as Representative of Small Producers

Afterword

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9781438490410

1438490410

OCLC:

1351204166