Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'Un-Chih Chi of Lo Ch'in-Shun

Book Overview

-- JAAS

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231064098
• ISBN13: 9780231064095
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A worthy entree into Chinese philosophy

Lo Ch'in-shun (1465-1547) was virtually the first Chinese thinker to make strong steps towards a modern understanding of the world, and Prof. Bloom places Lo's achievements in terms that Western philosophers can understand without violating the original, Chinese sense of his thought.