Artifice and virtue in the<Emphasis Type="Italic">Xunzi</Emphasis> |
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Authors: | Kurtis Hagen |
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Institution: | (1) College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, 3-25-40 Sakurajyosui, Satagaya-ku, 156-8550 Tokyo, Japan |
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Abstract: | Xunzi was chronologically the third of the three great Confucian thinkers of China’s classical period, after Confucius and
Mencius. Having produced the most comprehensive philosophical system of that period, he occupies a place in the development
of Chinese philosophy comparable to that of Aristotle in the Western philosophical tradition. This essay reveals how Xunzi’s
understanding of virtue and moral development dovetailed with his positions on ritual propriety, the attunement of names,
the relation betweenli (patterns) andlei (categories), and his view ofdao (the way) in general. I have argued for a “constructivist” understanding of each of these aspects of Xunzi’s philosophy in
some detail elsewhere (see Hagen 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003), and so here I will just briefly review a few key points before addressing
their relation to moral development. |
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