Dao Companion to the Analects

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Olberding, Amy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy ; 4
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.; Non-Western Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.

This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic, the Analects. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to the text and the signal ideas ascribed to its protagonist, Confucius.  The volum...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction, Amy Olberding
• Part I Text and Context
• 2. History and Formation of the Analects, Tae Hyun Kim and Mark Csikszentmihalyi
• 3. The Commentarial Tradition, John B. Henderson and On-Cho Ng
• 4. Confucius and His Communit, Yuet Keung Lo
• Part II The Conceptual Landscape
• 5. Ren 仁: An Exemplary Life, Karyn Lai
• 6. Ritual and Rightness in the Analect, Hagop Sarkissian
• 7. Family Reverence (xiao 孝) in the Analects: Confucian Role Ethics and the Dynamics of Intergenerational Transmission, Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont Jr.
• 8. Language and Ethics in the Analects, Hui Chieh Loy
• 9. Uprightness, Indirection, Transparency, Lisa Raphals
• 10. Cultivating the Self in Concert with Others, David B. Wong
• 11. Perspectives on Moral Failure in the Analects, Amy Olberding
• Part III Mapping the Landscape: Issues in Interpretation
• 12. The Analects and Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
• 13. Religious Thought and Practice in the Analects, Erin M. Cline
• 14. The Analects and Forms of Governance, Tongdong Bai
• 15. Why Care? A Feminist Re-appropriation of Confucian Xiao 孝, Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee
• 16. Balancing Conservatism and Innovation: The Pragmatic Analects, Sor-hoon Tan
• Indexm
• Index Locorum.