History of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism (Volume 1)

Author: Hou Wailu
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Publish Date: 1997-10-01
Features: Committed to publishing domestic academic books has always been our consistent purpose. In the field of the history of philosophy, thanks to the strong support of generations of experts and scholars, we have published many outstanding works that preserve academic value and rich intellectual wealth. To make it more systematic and beneficial for scholars of all generations to study and reference, we have compiled these books into the "Library of Historians of Philosophy." Philosophy is "the living soul of civilization." (Marx) We hope the "Library of Historians of Philosophy" can contribute a small part to the prosperity of philosophy and the progress of civilization. We also expect this library to continuously add new works. This book analyzes the historical conditions, stages of development, and academic trends of Neo-Confucianism during the Song and Ming dynasties, and objectively evaluates the work of forty-eight important or relatively important Neo-Confucian scholars. It particularly discusses in detail the characteristics of Yuan Dynasty Neo-Confucianism and its historical status, which have been avoided in previously published works on the history of Chinese thought and philosophy. At the same time, it provides a rather detailed revelation of the mutual debates between the two major schools of thought—Cheng-Zhu and Lu-Wang.