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Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.
Roger T. Ames's A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy is a companion volume to his Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy. It includes texts in the original classical Chinese along with their translations, allowing experts and novices alike to make whatever comparisons they choose. In applying a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics, Ames has tried to let the tradition speak on its own terms. The goal is to encourage readers to move between the translated text and commentary, the philosophical introduction that attempts to sensitize them to the interpretative context, and the companion Lexicon of key philosophical terms, with the expectation that in the fullness of time they will be able to appropriate the original Chinese terminologies themselves. Armed with their own increasingly robust insight into these philosophical terms, readers will be able to carry this nuanced understanding over into their critical reading of other available translations. Ultimately, for students who would understand Chinese philosophy, tianmust be understood as tian, and daomust be dao.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CONFUCIAN NATURAL COSMOLOGY: AN INTERPRETIVE CONTEXT
THE CANONICAL TEXTS: SELECTED PASSAGES
I. THE BOOK OF CHANGES (YIJING): A PROCESS COSMOLOGY
II. THE EXPANSIVE LEARNING (DAXUE): SETTING THE CONFUCIAN PROJECT
III. THE ANALECTS (LUNYU): A BASIC CONFUCIAN VOCABULARY
IV. THE MENCIUS (MENGZI): EXTENDING THE VOCABULARY
V. THE FOCUSING THE FAMILIAR (ZHONGYONG): THE HIGHEST EXPRESSION OF THE CONFUCIAN PROJECT
VI. THE CLASSIC OF FAMILY REVERENCE (XIAOJING): THE PRIME CONFUCIAN MORAL IMPERATIVE
VII. THE FIVE MODES OF VIRTUOSIC CONDUCT (WUXINGPIAN): THE INTERIM BETWEEN CONFUCIUS AND MENCIUS
VIII. THE MOZI: ON DENOUNCING THE CONFUCIANS AND THEIR DOCTRINES
IX. THE XUNZI: A SYNCRETIC CONFUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
