Balanced Discourses: A Bilingual Edition

כריכה קדמית
Yale 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.
 

תוכן

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
Index
357
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מידע על המחבר (2002)

John Makeham is senior lecturer in Chinese, University of Adelaide. Dang Shengyuan is a senior Chinese scholar.

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