Biography of Dai Zhen

Author: Li Kai
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This book is a large-scale critical biography of Dai Zhen, a renowned Qing Dynasty linguist, natural scientist, philosopher, and thinker. The entire work weaves together the biographical details of Dai Zhen with his academic, scientific, and philosophical thoughts, interspersing narration with analysis. It focuses on providing a clear and detailed examination of the profound academic and philosophical issues of this great scholar of the Qing Dynasty, making it highly readable. The book is structured around Dai Zhen's research methods and the logical development of his philosophical ideas, evaluating the historical and cultural context in which his thought emerged, the distinctions and transformations in his early and later thinking, his achievements in classical studies, natural science, and scientific philosophy, his contributions to historical geography, the linguistic and philosophical accomplishments of the humanities, his new rationalist moral philosophy, economic ethics, and naive dialectics.