Transition to Neo-Confucianism: Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality

by Anne Birdwhistell and Anne D Birdwhistell

The Sung Neo-Confucian synthesis is one of the two great formative periods in the history of Confucianism. Shao Yung (1011-77) was a key contributor to this synthesis, and this study attempts to make understandable the complex and highly theoretical thought of a philosopher who has been, for the most part, misunderstood for a thousand years. It is the first full-length study in any language of Shao Yung's philosophy.

Using an explicit metaphilosophical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804715505
• ISBN13: 9780804715508
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"