Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi

by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

An event of the first magnitude in the history of Neo-Confucianism was the debate between Chu Hsi (1130-1200), principal architect of Neo-Confucianism, and Ch'en Liang (1143-1194), who represented an admixture of Confucian humanism with utilitarian approaches to current questions. The issues that engaged them--the conflict between ethical and practical considerations in politics and society, and the tension between traditional values and historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674931769
• ISBN13: 9780674931763
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"