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Xunzi: The Complete Text by Xunzi
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $32.91This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.69A 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... -
Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi by Philip J. Ivanhoe 9780872205222
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.45Xunzi is traditionally identified as the third philosopher in the Confucian tradition, after Confucius and Mencius. Unlike the work of his two predecessors, he wrote complete essays in which he... -
Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi by Sungmoon Kim 9781108460569
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The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China by Cynthia Joanne Brokaw 9780691608792
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.22The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and... -
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism by Shadi Bartsch 9780691229607
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.00The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand... -
Meritocracy in Early Chinese Political Thought by Eirik Lang Harris (Colorado State University) 9781108793414
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.31This Element explores a range of conceptions of politically relevant merit found in the philosophical texts of pre-Qin China (before 221BCE). It demonstrates both that the role accorded to political... -
The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language Rein Raud 9781793646606
Booksplease Price: $104.14The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language argues that the practice of philosophizing is significantly influenced by linguistic structures. Against the... -
What You Want Constantine Phipps 9781848664371
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Patrick is still in love with his estranged wife. Returning with their son after a trip to an amusement park, he begs, one last time, to reconcile with her. When she refuses, he is driven to... -
An Introduction to the Ethics of Social Media Douglas Campbell 9781647922351
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.45"Doug Campbell lays out a comprehensive and fair-minded account of both the benefits and the drawbacks of social media for our era. He attaches these evaluations to both the individual and to society... -
Confucian Moral Self Cultivation by Philip J. Ivanhoe 9780872205086
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71A concise and accessible introduction to the evolution of the concept of moral self-cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition, this volume begins with an explanation of the pre-philosophical... -
Confucianism and American Philosophy by Mathew A. Foust
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.30A comparative analysis of Confucianism and the American Transcendentalist and Pragmatist traditions.In this highly original work, Mathew A. Foust breaks new ground in comparative studies through his... -
Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life by Stephen C. Angle
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.12Ancient and enduring, rich and wide-ranging, the tradition of Confucianism offers profound insights into how we can lead good lives--lives built on understanding that we are deeply connected to one... -
The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai by Julia K. Murray
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $96.66The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that reconstructs the remarkable history of Kongzhai, a shrine founded on the belief that Confucius' descendants buried the sage's robe and cap a...