A Critical History of Classical Chinese Philosophy

Title: A Critical History of Classical Chinese Philosophy

Author: He Zhaowu & Peng Gang

ISBN: 9787510405372

Edition: English

Publishing Date: 2009-09

Publishing House: New World Press

Cover: P   Page: 309     Format: 16mo  

Introduction:

Philosophical ideas of different schools such as Confucian, Taoist, Legalist, Mohist, Nominalist, Military Strategist, Yin and Yang, and Agriculturist in periods prior to the Qin Dynasty (221-202 B.C) are expounded and analyzed against their times in the book. Advantages and disadvantages of different theoretical functions are also investigated from a critical perspective. In addition, the book presents the authors’ personal views on the category of Chinese philosophy and the relations between traditional Chinese thoughts and modern sciences.

About the Authors:

He Zhaowu is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Tsinghua University，Beijing. His many publications include Essays in Critique of Historical Reason and Reflections on the History of Intellectual Intercourses Between China and the West. He is one of the CO-authors 0f A General Intellectual History of China and A History of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Mine Dynasties. He has also translated many western classics into Chinese. Including the works 0f Kant. Pascal. Rousseau，Edmund Burke and Condorcet.

Peng Gang is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Tsinghua University. Beijing. He is the author of Spirit. Freedom and History：A Study of the Philosophy of History of Benedetto Croce and the Narrative Turn; Recent Developments in Contemporary Western Historical Theories.

Content:

Introduction
Chapter One：Confucius and the Confucian School
Chapter Two：Mo Zi and the Mohist School
Chapter Three：The Mohist School and the Traditional Mode of Thinking
Chapter Four：The Hundred Schools (1)
Chapter Five：The Hundred Schools(2)
Chapter Six：Xun Zi
Chapter Seven：The Taoist School
Chapter Eight：The Legalists
Epilogue：The Traditional Mode of Thinking and Its Modernization