Mozi - Basic Writings

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-13001-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 202 mm, Gewicht: 186 g

Reihe: Translations from the Asian Classics

Mozi (fifth century B.C.) was an important political and social thinker and formidable rival of the Confucianists. He advocated universal love his most important doctrine according to which all humankind should be loved and treated as one's kinfolk honoring and making use of worthy men in government, and identifying with one's superior as a means of establishing uniform moral standards. He also believed in the will of Heaven and in ghosts. He firmly opposed offensive warfare, extravagance including indulgence in music and allied pleasures elaborate funerals and mourning, fatalistic beliefs, and Confucianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Burton

Weitere Mitwirkende

Watson, Burton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Outline of Early Chinese HistoryIntroductionHonoring the WorthyIdentifying with One's SuperiorUniversal LoveAgainst Offensive WarfareModeration in ExpenditureModeration in FuneralsThe Will of HeavenExplaining GhostsAgainst MusicAgainst FatalismAgainst ConfuciansIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. He received the PEN translation prize in 1981. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia. This book presents Watson's renowned translation of a Chinese philosophy classic in pinyin romanization for the first time.