Social and Political Thought Chinese philosophy began in the sixth century BCE with social and political philosophy as a response to the collapse of traditional bronze-age feudal society (Shang and Zhou dynasties). As the loyalty of the nobility to the...

Chinese Philosophy This composite entry is comprised of the following sub-entries: Overview Buddhism Confucianism Contemporary Daoism Ethics Language and Logic Metaphysics and Epistemology Religion Social and Political...

Language and Logic This entry focuses on concepts, issues, and themes of Chinese philosophy that involve language in view of its relation to reality, thought, and logic; the discussion is thus arranged on three central concerns in this regard: the issue...

Contemporary The People n-i). Shengming cunzai yu zinlin jingjie [Human existence and the worlds of the mind]. 2 vols. Taibei, Taiwan: xuesheng shuju, 1977. Yin, Haiguang (Yin Hai-kwong). Zhongguo wenhua te changwang [Reappraisal of cultural change in...

Chinese Logic Systematic argument in Chinese philosophy began with the Moist school, founded in the fifth century BCE by the first anti-Confucian thinker, Mozi (c. 470 torique chez les sophistes grecs et chez les sophistes chinois. Bern: Peter Lang,...

CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. The major developments in Chinese philosophy during the past three thousand years will be outlined here; ideas that are essentially religious, treated elsewhere, will be noted only as may be necessary to show the religious relevance...

DAO AND DE, the "way" and "virtue," respectively, are basic Chinese philosophical concepts with particular relevance in the Daoist tradition. They are important separately as politico-philosophical and religious terms....

the thought of Chinese culture, from earliest times to the present. The keynote in Chinese philosophy is humanism: man and his society have occupied, if not monopolized, the attention of Chinese philosophers throughout the ages. Ethical and political...

Chinese philosophy was philosophy written in the Chinese tradition of thought. Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the Yi Jing (the Book of Changes), an ancient compendium of divination, which...