Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“xunzi”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “xunzi”
Skip side bar filters

  • Xunzi

    The Complete Text

    by Xunzi, Eric L. Hutton ...
    This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi articulates a Confucian perspective on ethics, politics, warfare, language, psychology, human nature, ritual, and music, among other topics. Aimed ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Trying Not to Try

    Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity

    by Edward Slingerland ...
    A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-beingWhy is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a politician who seems wooden or a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Learning (Unabridged)

    Translated by James Legge ...
    by Confucius Confucius ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: “The Great Learning (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Analects

    by Confucius, Annping Chin ...
    Translated by Annping Chin ...
    Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper relationship between human beings and their environment?In this classic translation of The Analects by Arthur Waley, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Ta Hsüeh and Chung Yung

    The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean

    Edited by Andrew Plaks ...
    Set alongside The Analects and Mencius, these two texts make up the 'Four Books' of Chinese Confucian tradition. Their depiction of the 'Way of Great Learning' focuses on the moral tenets of Confucian thinking, establishing a universal framework that links individuals with the cosmos. By drawing together key ethical and philophical, and metaphysical issues, the essays deal with the individual's ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Xunzi

    Basic Writings

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession, and observance of ritual in life. Readers familiar with Xunzi's ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Confucianism as a World Religion

    Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

    by Anna Sun ...
    Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion.The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Ronnie L. Littlejohn ...
    The philosophical traditions of China have arguably influenced more human beings than any other. China has been the home not only of its indigenous philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Daoism, but also of uniquely modified forms of Buddhism. As Ronnie L Littlejohn shows, these traditions have for thousands of years formed the bedrock of the longest continuing civilization on the planet; ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Encountering China

    Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Michael J. Sandel, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
    In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Confucius

    The Man and the Way of Gongfu

    by Peimin Ni ...
    Through a systematic introduction of Confucius as a historical figure, a spiritual leader, a philosopher, a political reformer, an educator, and a person, this book offers a comprehensive, lucid, and in-depth articulation of Confucius and his teachings for Western students. It explains how his ideas are different from their Western counterparts as well as challenging the orthodox Western ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • New Horizons in Eastern Humanism

    Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace

    by Tu Weiming, Daisaku Ikeda ...
    China now attracts global attention in direct proportion to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for millennia, the philosophy which has shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism. And one of the most striking phenomena relating to China's ascendancy on the world stage is a burgeoning interest, throughout Asia and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Teaching Confucianism

    Edited by Jeffrey L. Richey ...
    Series series AAR Teaching Religious Studies
    Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East Asia, an influence that continues to be important in the global Asian diaspora. If forecasters are ... Read more

    $35.09 USD