Three Streams: Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan

by Philip J. Ivanhoe

Recent interest in Confucianism has a tendency to suffer from essentialism and idealism, manifested in a variety of ways. One example is to think of Confucianism in terms of the views attributed to one representative of the tradition, such as Kongzi (Confucius) (551-479 BCE) or Mengzi (Mencius) (372 - 289 BCE) or one school or strand of the tradition, most often the strand or tradition associated with Mengzi or, in the later tradition, that formed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190492015
• ISBN13: 9780190492014
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"