Embracing Our Complexity by Catherine Hudak Klancer
This book discusses what a religiously grounded authority might look like from the viewpoints of the European Catholic Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and the Chinese Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi (1130-1200). The consideration of these two figures, immensely influential in their respective traditions, reflects the conviction that any responsible discourse on authority must consider different cultural perspectives. Catherine Hudak Klancer notes that both Zhu Xi and Aquinas conceive wisdom as including, yet surpassing, human reason. Both express an explicit faith in the moral order of the cosmos and the ethical potential of human beings. The systematic, idealistic approach common to both provides the cosmic, anthropological, and ethical elements needed for a comprehensive exploration of how to exercise and limit authority. Ultimately, Klancer writes, authority requires a particular virtue, hitherto latent in both scholars' work and in their lives as well. A person with this virtue-humble authority-is properly grounded in the sacred order, and fully cognizant in theory and in practice of the parameters of human nature and the responsibilities attendant upon the human role.-
The Taoist Experience
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Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty
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The Tao of the Tao Te Ching
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The Annotated Laozi
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Understanding the Analects of Confucius
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Freedom's Frailty
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Ziran
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The Contemplative Foundations of Classical Daoism
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Myth and the Making of History
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Writing and Authority in Early China
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The Confucian Creation of Heaven
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Two Visions of the Way
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Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China
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The Philosopher Li Zehou
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The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century
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The Future of China's Past
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Confucian Liberalism
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A Philosophical Defense of Culture
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Lore and Verse
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From Metaphysical Representations to Aesthetic Life
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Persons Emerging
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The Old Master
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Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China
Catherine Hudak Klancer is Lecturer in the Core Curriculum at Boston University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438458410 |
| ISBN 10 | 143845841X |
| Title | Embracing Our Complexity |
| Author | Catherine Hudak Klancer |
| Series | Suny Series In Chinese Philosophy And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2015-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 362 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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