The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing

by Henry Rosemont Jr. and Roger T. Ames

Book Overview

Few if any philosophical schools have championed family values as persistently as the early Confucians, and a great deal can be learned by attending to what they had to say on the subject. In the Confucian tradition, human morality and the personal realization it inspires are grounded in the cultivation of family feeling. One may even go so far as to say that, for China, family reverence was a necessary condition for developing any of the other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833481
• ISBN13: 9780824833480
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"