The World of Thought in Ancient ChinaThe center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture. |
Contents
Introduction | |
Early Cultural Orientations Issues and Speculations | 14 |
Early Chou Thought Continuity and Breakthrough | 38 |
Confucius The Vision of the Analects | 54 |
Motzus Challenge | 133 |
The Emergence of a Common Discourse Some Key Terms | 171 |
The Ways of Taoism | 184 |
The Defense of the Confucian Discourse Mencius and Hsüntzu | 253 |
Legalism The Behavioral Science | 319 |