Titlebook: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi; Eric L. Hutton Book 2016 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2016 Ancient Confucianism.Virtue E

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Book 2016.. This has diminished the popularity of the work. ..However,the essays presented here help to change this situation. They open the text’s riches to Western students and scholars. The book also highlights the substantial impact the .Xunzi. has had on thinkers throughout history, even on those who we

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Style and Poetic Diction in the ,,s such, its twenty-four core chapters are attributed to a single author, Xun Kuang. The present essay challenges these views through a close examination of the .’s style and rhetoric, including its use of poetic diction, quotations of traditional, authoritative wisdom, metaphors and analogies, rheto

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Ethics in the ,,relates to the rest of the Chinese tradition, by way of comparison and contrast with other Chinese thinkers. The other perspective is more philosophical, and is concerned with understanding how Xunzi’s ideas fit together, and what are their strengths and weaknesses. This chapter takes the latter app

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,Xunzi’s Political Philosophy,ory naturally extending from his virtue-based moral theory. In developing this interpretation, this chapter looks at the arguments that Xunzi uses in constructing his vision of political order, in particular analyzing why Xunzi believes humans need to live in society, the features of both human natu

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,, and Xunzi’s Understanding of Our Nature,. Xing for Xunzi refers not to human nature but rather the original and spontaneous state of human beings. Xunzi suggests that people’s natural feelings and desires have no inherent propriety and yet they come with motivating power to seek for their own satisfaction. By themselves, natural feelings

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Xunzi on Moral Psychology,s in his remarks about people’s xing 性 (“nature”) and wei 偽 (“deliberate effort”), several other passages that do not explicitly invoke those notions are also relevant to understanding his views on moral psychology. In this chapter I focus primarily on those other passages, since Xunzi’s conceptions

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Xunzi as a Theorist and Defender of Ritual,were popular misunderstandings of ritual. His response, as I describe it, involves a number of related sophisticated philosophical positions that I label as “meta-level awareness and reflexivity,” “participant-observer consciousness,” and “symbolic realism.” The essay focuses on Xunzi’s powerful des