Balanced Discourses: A Bilingual EditionYale University Press, 1 בינו׳ 2002 - 366 עמודים Written by the Han philosopher Xu Gan (A.D. 170-217), Balanced Discourses is an inquiry into the causes of political breakdown. It provides a unique contemporary account of the social, intellectual, and cosmological factors that Xu Gan identified as having precipitated the demise of the Han order. This edition of Zhonglun (or Balanced Discourses) contains the original Chinese text with annotations and, on facing pages, an English translation also accompanied by annotations. This collection of essays spans a range of topics, from Confucian cultivation to calendrical calculation. Xu's perspectives are of not only historical but also philosophical interest, for they reveal his belief in a special correlative bond that should exist between names and actualities and his understanding of what happens when that bond is broken. The translator, John Makeham, argues in his introduction that the essays display the same quality of balance that Xu Gan sees as essential to social and political equilibrium. |
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1 Ordering Learning | 3 |
2 Establishing Models and Exemplars | 17 |
3 Cultivating the Fundamental | 31 |
4 The Way of Humility | 51 |
5 Valuing Proof | 61 |
6 Valuing Words | 73 |
7 The Fundamental Principles of the Arts | 85 |
8 An Examination of Disputation | 97 |
14 Distinguishing Between Premature Death and Longevity | 187 |
15 Attend to the Fundamentals | 205 |
16 Examining the Selection of High Officials | 219 |
17 Be Careful of the Advice One Follows | 235 |
18 Destruction of the State | 249 |
19 Rewards and Punishments | 265 |
20 Population Figures | 271 |
21 Reinstitute the ThreeYear Mourning Period | 277 |
9 Wisdom and Deeds | 105 |
10 Titles and Emoluments | 121 |
11 Examining Falsity | 135 |
12 A Rebuke of Social Connections | 153 |
13 Astronomical Systems | 175 |
22 Regulate the Allotment of Corvée Laborers | 283 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 343 |
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