Timing and Rulership in Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lushi Chunqiu): Lushi Chunqiu

by Sellmann, James D.

• ISBN13: 9780791452318
• ISBN10: 079145231X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

James D. Sellmann is Professor of Philosophy and Director of East Asian Studies at the University of Guam.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Note Concerning Conventions Used in This Book	xi
Introduction: The Lushi chunqiu's Background and Foreground	1	(24)
Lu Buwei and the LSCQ	6	(5)
Season Timing (chunqiu) and the Nature of the LSCQ	11	(6)
The LSCQ's Impact	17	(2)
The Mythification of History	19	(6)
The LSCQ's programmatic Conceptions of Xing: Cultivating Desires in the Process of Life	25	(42)
The LSCQ's Seasonal Arrangement of Traditional Theories on Xing	28	(39)
An Emergent Social Order	67	(50)
Human Character and Social Order: An Analogy	68	(2)
A Survey of Pre-Qin Organic and Instrumental Positions and Their Impact on the LSCQ	70	(19)
The LSCQ's Unified Eclectic Conception on the Origin and Role of the State: An Organic Instrumental Position	89	(28)
Proper Timing in the Cosmic, Historical, and Moral Realms	117	(34)
Cosmic and Seasonal Proper Timing	118	(15)
Historical Proper Timing	133	(6)
Proper Timing in Moral and Interpersonal Relations	139	(12)
Applying Proper Timing to Contemporary Issues	151	(40)
Is Social and Political Philosophy Culture Bound?	151	(2)
Contemporary Philosophy and the LSCQ	153	(38)
Appendix I: Phenomenological and Etymological Conceptions of Timing (Shi)	191	(8)
Appendix II: A Study of Xingming zhi Qing in the LSCQ; The Achievement of One's Natural Relations (Ming)	199	(8)
Notes	207	(36)
Bibliography	243	(10)
Index	253