Thinking Through Confucius: Tongwen College · Philosophy

Author: (USA) David Hall
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This outstanding book is imbued with a powerful force that shatters conventional thinking and presents fresh perspectives, boldly challenging certain common views about Eastern and Western cultures. One of the author's conclusions is that the great scholars (daier) are "aesthetic" rather than "moral" in the Western sense, which is supposedly governed by a superficial rational order. For its Chinese readers, the contemporary reconstruction of the perspective from beyond the borders in Thinking Through Confucius not only bravelys their numb awareness of their own tradition, but also holds profound value in the reflections it accumulates on the active rediscovery of Confucian thought and its implications for the contemporary issue of effective cultural communication.