Xunzi

Basic Writings

Burton Watson

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Jahr: 2003
• ISBN:
  9780231521314
• Thema: Filosofia
• Thema: Filosofia orientale

Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession, and observance of ritual in life. Readers familiar with Xunzi's work will find that Burton Watson's lucid translation breathes new life into this classic. Those new to Xunzi will find his ideas on government, language, and order and safety in society surprisingly close to concerns of our own age.

Index

Accomplishment, heavenly

Analects, quoted

Animals, domestic

Annexation, three ways of

Aristocracy, divisions of

Armor

Army, regulations of

Articles, of the dead

Artisans, director of

Ba (dictator; overlord)n Ban Gu

Bao Shu

Bi (obsession)

Bi Gan

Bigong

Bilü (sword)

Birth, ritual and

Bo Qi

Bo Ya

Book of Documents; quoted

Book of Odes; quoted

Book of Rites (Liji)

Cang Jie

Chen Xiao

Cheng, Marquis

Cheng Tang, see Tang (sage king)

Chong (ruler)

Chu (state)

Chui

Chunshen, lord of

“Classic of the Way,” quoted

Communities, director of

Community drinking ceremony (xiang)

Confucianism

Confucius; quoted

Cong (sword)

Da Ji

Dai, Master (Dai Busheng)

Daxiang (sacrifice)

Death, ritual and

Demons

Desires

Dictates, heavenly

Dictator (ba)

Disorder passim

Distinctions, in society

Dong Zhongshu

Dubs, Horner H.

Duyvendak, J.J.L.

Eclipses

Education passim

Emotions, heavenly

Environment

Evil, basic, in man’s nature

Expedients, five, of warfare

Extremities, three, of warfare

Faculties, heavenly

Fanruo (bow)

Fei Lian

Fields, administrator of

Filial piety

Force, use of; as means of annexing territory

Form, proper, in music

Fouyou

Funerals

Ganjiang (sword)

Gaozong (King Wuding)

General, qualifications of

Gentleman, behavior of passim passim

Ghosts

Godliness, education as

Gong Gong

Gongsun Long

Goodness, produced by evil

Goods, use of

Goujian, King, of Yue

Government; as function of the sage passim; and the rectification of names passim

Grand protector

Grand tutor

Guan Longfeng

Guan Zhong

Guanzi

Han (state)

Han Feizi

Handicapped, the physically

Hanshi waizhuan

Hattori Unokichi

Heart

Heaven

Helü, King, of Wu

Hierarchy, moral

Hu (sword)

Hu Ba

Huai, King, of Chu

Hualiu (horse)

Huan, Duke, of Qi

Huan Dou

Hui Shi (Huizi)

Impersonator of the de...