Zhu XI and Meister Eckhart: Two Intellectual Profiles

by S Zheng

This book attempts a comparative study between Zhu Xi (1130-1200), a Neo-Confucian master of the Song Dynasty in China, and Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), a scholastic and mystic in the medieval West. With a focus on the theme of human intellect as presented in the works of the two thinkers, this study also explores the massive hermeneutical framework in which that concept is unfolded in Zhu Xi and in Eckhart. Thus, the complexity of each thinker's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042932139
• ISBN13: 9789042932135
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.6"