Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought

Door: Makeham, John

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• ISBN: 9780791419847
• Boekreferentie: Chinese filosofie
• Uitgever: State University of New York Press
• Taal: ------------------
• Categorie: Kennis en wetenschap
• Details: Paperback, Redelijk
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  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 unders

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