Erstwhile Series – serie
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Good Beyond Evil
Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC)
Av Mingyuan Xunzi, Hu
Häftad, 2023
93 kr
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A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be meritorious, protecting the people. This makes …
Virtue Politics
Mencius on kingly rule (372-289 BC)
Av Mingyuan Mencius, Hu
Häftad, 2023
106 kr
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An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance prospered. Like Confucius had done two centuries before him, Mencius wandered from state to state, lobbying sovereigns. Mencian virtue politics has been …
Realpolitik
Han Fei on mighty reign (280-233 BC)
Av Han Fei
Häftad, 2023
80 kr
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Variously considered a Taoist and a cynic, Han Fei, himself a prince, has been seen as a forerunner to Machiavelli. At the end of the Warring States, when oratory mattered hugely, Han Fei, with a stutter, was the brain and the plume of the Legalist School. From Han Fei's oeuvre, Mingyuan Hu selects …
Oratory and Democracy in China
Four dialogues from the Annals of the Warring States (475-221 BC)
Av diverse and anonymous, Mingyuan Hu
Häftad, 2022
106 kr
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The Annals of the Warring States records the School of Diplomacy at work during one of the most captivating times in Chinese history. In four dialogues, thinking beings challenge sovereign power in ways that surprise and resonate. They make visible an astonishing relationship between politics and …
Lament in Love
The verses of Qu Yuan (340-278 BC)
Av Qu Yuan, Mingyuan Hu
Häftad, 2024
106 kr
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The prodigious aristocrat Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu, a major power during the Warring States. Pressing for Vertical Alliance but not listened to, he was twice exiled. Bewailing affliction, he wrote verses in the Chu dialect, and liberated poetry from the four-syllable metre. Qu Yuan's vers …
Eremitic and Extravagant
Elegance of personality I (25-444 AD)
Häftad, 2024
106 kr
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Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in the Shishuo Xinyu - character sketches from the fifth century of elevated, often eccentric, beings. Bygone archetypes of soaring individuality, poets, politicians, artists, and musicians here come in an ensemble …
Bold and Untrammelled
Elegance of personality II (25-444 AD)
Häftad, 2024
106 kr
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Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in the Shishuo Xinyu - character sketches from the fifth century of elevated, often eccentric, beings. Bygone archetypes of soaring individuality, poets, politicians, artists, and musicians here come in an ensemble …
