Principle and Practicality: Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning

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Columbia University Press, 1979 - History - 543 pages
These essays explore the continuities and discontinuities between the Neo-Confucian thought of Ming China and early Tokugawa Japan and the practical learning of the 17th and 18th centuries, underlining the need for a deeper examination of the complex relationship between traditional and modern thoughts and values.
 

Contents

Introduction WM THEODORE DE BARY
1
Practical Learning in Yen Yüan Chu Hsi and Wang
37
Some Concrete Evi
69
Sagehood as a Secular and Spiritual Ideal in Tokugawa
127
The Practical Learning of Chu Shunshui JULIA
189
Yamazaki Ansai
231
Nakae Tojus Religious Thought and Its Relation
307
Toward Pragmatic
337
Jitsugaku and Empirical Rationalism in the First Half of
375
Continuities
471
Index
515
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About the author (1979)

William Theodore de Bary was born in the Bronx, New York on August 9, 1919. He graduated from Columbia College in 1941 and began pursuing Japanese studies at Harvard University. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was recruited by naval intelligence. He served at Pearl Harbor and later in Tokyo and Washington. After the war, he received a master's degree and a doctorate from Columbia. He taught Asian courses at Columbia and soon became head of Asian studies. From 1971 until 1978, he served as a vice president for academic affairs and provost. After formally retiring in 1989, he continued to teach with emeritus status until May 2017. He wrote or edited more than 30 books including The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community and Sources of Chinese Tradition. In 2013, he received the National Humanities Medal. He died on July 14, 2017 at the age of 97.

Bibliographic information

TitlePrinciple and Practicality: Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning
Neo-Confucian studies
Issue 15 of Studies in Oriental culture
AuthorIrene Bloom
EditorsWm. Theodore De Bary, William Theodore De Bary, Irene Bloom
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherColumbia University Press, 1979
ISBN0231046138, 9780231046138
Length543 pages
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History / Asia / China
History / Asia / Japan
Philosophy / Eastern
Philosophy / General
Religion / Confucianism
  
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