Principle and Practicality

Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning

• Author(s): Irene Bloom,
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Pages: 543
• ISBN_10: 0231046138
  ISBN_13: 9780231046138
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / China , History / Asia / Japan , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Eastern , Religion / Confucianism ,

Description:... These essays explore the continuities and discontinuities between the Neo-Confucian thought of Ming China and early Tokugawa Japan and the practical learning of the 17th and 18th centuries, underlining the need for a deeper examination of the complex relationship between traditional and modern thoughts and values.