Mencius series - Couverture rigide

(Mencius), Mengzi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 7543820854 ISBN 13 : 9787543820852

Editeur : Hunan Publishing House, 2000

Synopsis

One of the set of Library of Chinese Classics--published in a Chinese-English facing pages format as an introduction to the great body of traditional Chinese literature, history and philosophy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with kings, dukes and military men, as well as other philosophers, is one of the Four Books that make up the essential Confucian corpus. It takes up Confucius's theories of jen, or goodness and yi, righteousness, explaining that the individual can achieve harmony with mankind and the universe by perfecting his innate moral nature and acting with benevolence and justice. Mencius' strikingly modern views on the duties of subjects and their rulers or the evils of war, created a Confucian orthodoxy that has remained intact since the third century BCE.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mencius (372-298 BC) was one of the greatest Chinese philosophers, focusing on political theory and practice. Mencius, like Confucius, believed that rulers were divinely placed in order to guarantee peace and order among the people they rule. Unlike Confucius, Mencius believed that if a ruler failed to bring peace and order about, then the people could be absolved of all loyalty to that ruler and were justified to revolt.D. C. Lau is a Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hunan Publishing House
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 7543820854
• ISBN 13: 9787543820852
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible