Confucius and Confucianism
03 Oct 1994 12:00Western views over time. Absence from current popular and semi-popular views of east Asian thought.
- Recommended:
- Confucius, Analects, trans. Arthur Waley.
- H. G. Creel, Confucius and the Chinese Way
- John B. Henderson, The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns
- Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, vol. II
- To read:
- John H. Berthrong, Transformations of the Confucian Way
- Joseph Chan, Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times [This sounds like an exercise in intellectual virtuosity than anything else, but "to be shot after a fair trial"...]
- Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms
- Michael Nylan, The Five "Confucian" Classics
- Yuri Pines, Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E
- Kwong-Loi Shun and David Wong (eds.), Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community
- Anna Sun, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
- Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism
