Editorial: Good Press
Idioma: Inglés
ISBN: 4057664140487
Formatos: ePub (con DRM de Adobe)
Editorial: Good Press
Idioma: Inglés
ISBN: 4057664140487
Formatos: ePub (con DRM de Adobe)
Confucius was born the son of a poor nobleman in the state of Lu, which is modern-day Shantung. By the time he was thirty, he had established himself as China's first specialized teacher. He embarked on this career because he felt that an education should be more than the simple attainment of a vocation.
Irene Bloom is professor emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the editor and translator of Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un-chih chi of Lo Ch'in-shun and, with Joshua A. Fogel, editor of Meeting of Minds: Intellectual and Religious Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought.Philip J. Ivanhoe specializes in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion and its potential for contemporary ethics. He has written, edited, or coedited more than a dozen books, including Readings from the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism and Confucian Moral Self-Cultivation, and has published more than thirty articles and numerous entries on Chinese and Western religious and ethical thought.