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Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science

Author : Angus Charles Graham
Publisher : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science written by Angus Charles Graham and published by Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a general account of the school of Mo-tzu, its social basis as a movement of craftsmen, its isolated place in the Chinese tradition, and the nature of its later contributions to logic, ethics, and science. It assesses the relation of Mohist thinking to the structure of the Chinese language, and grapples with the textual dynamics of later Mohist writings, particularly in regard to grammar and style, technical terminology, the use and significance of stock examples, and overall organization. Includes edited and annotated Chinese text with an English translation and commentary, a glossary, and a photographic reproduction of the unemended text from the Taoist Patrology.

Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science

Author : Angus Charles Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780728600256
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science written by Angus Charles Graham and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophy of the Mòzĭ

Author : Chris Fraser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023152059X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Mòzĭ written by Chris Fraser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohism was an ancient Chinese philosophical movement founded in the fifth century BCE by the charismatic artisan Mòzi, or "Master Mo." Its practitioners advanced a consequentialist ethics, along with fascinating political, logical, and epistemological theories, that set the terms of philosophical argumentation and reflection in China for generations to come. Mohism faded away in the imperial era, leaving the impression that it was not as vital as other Chinese philosophical traditions, yet a complete understanding of Confucianism or Daoism is impossible without appreciating the seminal contribution of Mohist thought. The Philosophy of the Mòzi is an extensive study of Mohism, situating the movement's rise and decline within Chinese history. The book also emphasizes Mohism's relevance to modern systems of thought. Mohism anticipated Western utilitarianism by more than two thousand years. Its political theory is the earliest to outline a just war doctrine and locate the origins of government in a state of nature. Its epistemology, logic, and psychology provide compelling alternatives to contemporary Western mentalism. More than a straightforward account of Mohist principles and practice, this volume immerses readers in the Mohist mindset and clarifies its underpinning of Chinese philosophical discourse.

Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature

Author : Angus Charles Graham
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404492
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature written by Angus Charles Graham and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham addresses several fundamental problems in classical Chinese philosophy, and in the nature and structure of the classical Chinese language. These inquiries and reflections are both broad based and detailed. Two sources of continuity bring these seemingly disparate parts into a coherent and intelligible whole. First, Graham addresses that set of fundamental philosophical questions that have been the focus of dispute in the tradition, and that have defined its character: What is the nature of human nature? What can we through linguistic and philosophical scrutiny discover about the date and composition of some of the major texts? What sense can we make of the Kung-sun Lung sophistries? A second source of coherence is Graham's identification and articulation of those basic and often unconscious presuppositions that ground our own tradition. By so doing, he enables readers to break free from the limits of their own conceptual universe and to explore in the Chinese experience a profoundly different world view.

墨子全譯

Author : 墨翟
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9629962705
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book 墨子全譯 written by 墨翟 and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English translation of the complete work and the first bilingual version in any European language. It is one of the small number of key texts surviving from the first flowering of Chinese philosophy during the Warring States period.

Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy

Author : Alexus McLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783483457
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy written by Alexus McLeod and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines different views on the concept of truth in early Chinese philosophy, and considers a variety of theories of truth in Chinese and comparative thought.

The Art of Chinese Philosophy

Author : Paul Goldin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200793
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Chinese Philosophy written by Paul Goldin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldin thus begins the book by asking the basic question "What are we reading?" while also considering why it has been so rarely asked. Yet far from denigrating Chinese philosophy, he argues that liberating these texts from the mythic idea that they are the product of a single great mind only improves our understanding and appreciation. By no means does a text require single and undisputed authorship to be meaningful; nor is historicism the only legitimate interpretive stance. The first chapter takes up a hallmark of Chinese philosophy that demands a Western reader's cognizance: its preference for non-deductive argumentation. Chinese philosophy is an art (hence the title) he demonstrates, more than it is a rigorous logical method. Then comes the core of the book, eight chapters devoted to the eight philosophical texts divided into three parts: Philosophy of Heaven, Philosophy of the Way, and Two Titans at the End of an Age. .

The Huainanzi and Liu An's Claim to Moral Authority

Author : Griet Vankeerberghen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791451489
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Huainanzi and Liu An's Claim to Moral Authority written by Griet Vankeerberghen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought

Author : John Makeham
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791419830
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought written by John Makeham and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first Western study of the philosophy of Xu Gan (170-217), a Confucian thinker who lived at a nodal point in the history of Chinese thought, when Han scholasticism had become ossified and the creative and independent quality that characterized Wei-Jin thought was just emerging. As the theme of his study, Makeham develops an original and richly detailed account of ming shi, 'name and actuality,' one of the key pairs of concepts in early Chinese thought. He shows how Xu Gan's understanding of the 'name and actuality' relationship was most immediately influenced by Xu Gan's understanding of why the Han dynasty had collapsed, yet had its roots in a tradition of discourse that spanned the classical period (circa 500-150 B.C.E.). In reconstructing the philosophical background of Xu Gan's understanding of the relationship between 'name and actuality,' Makeham identifies two antithetical theories of naming in early Chinese thought--nominalist and correlative--a distinction that is as great as the Realist-Nominalist distinction of Western thought. He shows how Xu Gan's views on the name and actuality relationship were animated, on the one hand, by a rejection of nominalist theories of naming, and on the other hand, by a novel appropriation of correlative theories of naming. The study also analyzes two of the more immediate social and intellectual issues in the late Eastern Han (25-220) period that had prompted Xu Gan to discuss the name and actuality relationship: the ethos of the scholar-gentry (ming jiao) and Han approaches to classical scholarship. Makeham demonstrates how Xu Gan's critique of these matters is valuable not only as a late Han philosophical account of what had led to the demise of the 400-year-old Han dynasty, but also as a mode of conceptualizing that contributed to the new direction that philosophical thinking took in the third century C.E..

The Essential Mòzǐ

Author : Mo Zi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019258734X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Mòzǐ written by Mo Zi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world' The Mòzǐ is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical, political, and logical theories. The collected works introduce concepts, assumptions, and issues that had a profound, lasting influence throughout the classical and early imperial eras. Mòzǐ and his followers developed the world's first ethical theory, and presented China's first account of the origin of political authority from a state of nature. They were prominent social activists whose moral and political reform movement sought to improve the welfare of the common people and eliminate elite extravagance and misuse of power. In this new translation, Chris Fraser focuses on the philosophical aspects of the writing and allows readers to truly enter the Mohists' world of thought. This abridged edition includes the essential political and social topics of concern to this vital movement. Informed by traditional and recent scholarship, the translation presents the Mohists' ideas and arguments clearly, precisely, and coherently, while accurately reflecting the meaning, terminology, and style of the original.

Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon

Author : Matthias Schemmel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031087976
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon written by Matthias Schemmel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is aimed at historians of science, of knowledge and of philosophy, and generally at readers interested in these topics from an intercultural perspective and particularly with respect to China.

Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society

Author : Charles Le Blanc
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 962209189X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society written by Charles Le Blanc and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe, in Chinese eyes, is a harmonious organism; its pattern of movement is inherent and not imposed from without; and the world of man, being a part of the universe, follows a similar pattern. (Derk Bodde, Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy). The main theme that pervades this Festschrift, written by fellow-scholars and students of Bodde for his seventy-fifth birthday, is that of the proper ordering of the universe as it obtains in the Chinese tradition.

Philosophical Perceptions on Logic and Order

Author : Horne, Jeremy
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522524444
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perceptions on Logic and Order written by Horne, Jeremy and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong reasoning skills are an important aspect to cultivate in life, as they directly impact decision making on a daily basis. By examining the different ways the world views logic and order, new methods and techniques can be employed to help expand on this skill further in the future. Philosophical Perceptions on Logic and Order is a pivotal scholarly resource that discusses the evolution of logical reasoning and future applications for these types of processes. Highlighting relevant topics including logic patterns, deductive logic, and inductive logic, this publication is an ideal reference source for academicians, students, and researchers that would like to expand their understanding of how society currently employs the use of logical reasoning techniques.

Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic

Author : Yiu-ming Fung
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030290336
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic written by Yiu-ming Fung and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces the basic ideas and theories of Chinese thought in a comprehensive and analytical way. It covers thoughts in ancient, pre-modern and modern China from a historical point of view. It deals with topics in logical (including logico-philosophical) concepts and theories rooted in China, Indian and Western Logic transplanted to China, and the development of logical studies in contemporary China and other Chinese communities. The term “philosophy of logic” or “logico-philosophical thought” is used in this book to represent “logical thought” in a broad sense which includes thinking on logical concepts, modes of reasoning, and linguistic ideas related to logic and philosophical logic. Unique in its approach, the book uses Western logical theories and philosophy of language, Chinese philology, and history of ideas to deal with the basic ideas and major problems in logical thought and logical thinking in China. In doing so, it advances the understanding of the lost tradition in Chinese philosophical studies.

Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Author : Philip J. Ivanhoe
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603844902
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy written by Philip J. Ivanhoe and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition offers expanded selections from the works of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and Xunzi (Hsun Tzu); two new works, the dialogues Robber Zhi and White Horse; a concise general introduction; brief introductions to, and selective bibliographies for, each work; and four appendices that shed light on important figures, periods, texts, and terms in Chinese thought.

If A, Then B

Author : Michael Shenefelt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535198
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book If A, Then B written by Michael Shenefelt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really is a sense of. It also explains what drove human beings to start studying logic in the first place. Logic is more than the work of logicians alone. Its discoveries have survived only because logicians have also been able to find a willing audience, and audiences are a consequence of social forces affecting large numbers of people, quite apart from individual will. This study therefore treats politics, economics, technology, and geography as fundamental factors in generating an audience for logic—grounding the discipline's abstract principles in a compelling material narrative. The authors explain the turbulent times of the enigmatic Aristotle, the ancient Stoic Chrysippus, the medieval theologian Peter Abelard, and the modern thinkers René Descartes, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, John Stuart Mill, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Alan Turing. Examining a variety of mysteries, such as why so many branches of logic (syllogistic, Stoic, inductive, and symbolic) have arisen only in particular places and periods, If A, Then B is the first book to situate the history of logic within the movements of a larger social world. If A, Then B is the 2013 Gold Medal winner of Foreword Reviews' IndieFab Book of the Year Award for Philosophy.

Having a Word with Angus Graham

Author : Carine Defoort
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438468555
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Having a Word with Angus Graham written by Carine Defoort and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology. This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (19191991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics, ranging from Chinese grammar and philology to poetry and philosophy. His combination of rigorous scholarship and philosophical originality has continued to inspire scholars to tackle related research topics, and in so doing, has required of them a response to his views. This book illustrates the range of scholarship still elaborating upon, disagreeing with, and reacting to Grahams work on Chinese thought, philosophy, philology, and translation. Grahams prolific writings have shaped the field of Chinese philosophy for the last four decades. Taking stock of how much contemporary discourse on Chinese philosophy has been influenced by Grahams works and how far it has come from Grahams days, while suggesting possible future trajectories, is timely. In addition, some of the contributors accounts of their personal encounters with Graham give readers a rather intimate and fascinating portrayal of the man behind the ideas. Tao Jiang, coeditor of The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: Chinas Freudian Slip