Balanced Discourses: A Bilingual Edition
by Gan Xu
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Written by the Han philosopher Xu Gan (A.D. 170-217), Balanced Discourses is an inquiry into the causes of political breakdown. It provides a unique contemporary account of the social, intellectual, and cosmological factors that Xu Gan identified as having precipitated the demise of the Han order. This edition of Zhonglun (or Balanced Discourses) contains the original Chinese text with annotations and, on facing pages, an English translation also accompanied by annotations. This collection show more of essays spans a range of topics, from Confucian cultivation to calendrical calculation. Xu's perspectives are of not only historical but also philosophical interest, for they reveal his belief in a special correlative bond that should exist between names and actualities and his understanding of what happens when that bond is broken. The translator, John Makeham, argues in his introduction that the essays display the same quality of balance that Xu Gan sees as essential to social and political equilibrium. show lessTags
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- The gentleman of past times would perfect his virtue and establish good deeds through his conduct; when he died, his name would not be forgotten. What is the reason he was able to do this? Learning!
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- 181.112 — Philosophy and Psychology Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy Eastern philosophy Far East and South Asia China & Korea Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
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- B126 .X813 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Ancient
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