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Shengren
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Author : Thorsten J. Pattberg
language : en
Publisher: LoD Press, New York
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Shengren written by Thorsten J. Pattberg and has been published by LoD Press, New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Religion categories.
The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history. Since the Europeans had not anything like it, but refused to hold the candle to China; instead they withheld the shengren and talked about some lesser versions of Greek ‘philosophers’ or Christian ‘holy men.’ The English soon found a slightly better translation; they called the shengren ‘sages.’ The Germans however, the descendants of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation, never had a concept for sages or sagehood. In their effort to christen China, the Germans called the shengren ‘saints.’ Few people realize how the fate of the shengren was inextricably linked to the German obsession with Holiness. The European imperialists soon engaged in a fierce battle over China's most valuable possessions: its names.
Shengren
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Author : Thorsten Pattberg
language : en
Publisher: LoD Press
Release Date : 2011-08-30
Shengren written by Thorsten Pattberg and has been published by LoD Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with categories.
Holy Confucius Some Observations In Translating Sheng Ren In The Analects
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Author : Thorsten J. Pattberg
language : en
Publisher: LoD Press, New York
Release Date : 2018-10-13
Holy Confucius Some Observations In Translating Sheng Ren In The Analects written by Thorsten J. Pattberg and has been published by LoD Press, New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-13 with Religion categories.
The Chinese term 聖 sheng (simplified: 圣) appears eight times in six paragraphs in the Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu). The all-time champion of English translations for sheng(ren) is 'the sage'. In most English (and French) writings on the Chinese tradition one will come across the translation "the sages (les sages)" eventually; but not so in the majority of German writings. The all-favored German translation, based on Schott, Grube, Wilhelm, Haas, Biallas, Conrady and many others, is the biblical "die Heiligen" (saints or holy-men). This is rather surprising at first. Sages and saints are two very different archetypes of wisdom. In this paper I will showcase the most important German, French/Latin, and English translations of sheng(ren) in the Analects ranging from 1649 to 2009. I will discuss some of the odd translators' choices made, and why: saints, philosophers, geniuses, Berufene (appointees), Kulturheroen (cultural heroes), Great Men, Göttliche (the god-like) and more.
Rationality And Religious Experience
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Author : Henry Rosemont
language : en
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Rationality And Religious Experience written by Henry Rosemont and has been published by Open Court Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philosophy categories.
Henry Rosemont puts forth two arguements in this volume: that Western science and education are products of an Abrahamic world view and would not have arisen in a non-Abrahamic religious environment such as India or China; and that all religions, regardless of tradition, enhance our non-material lives by providing direction towards a religious experience, a sense of fully belonging.
China S Saints
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Author : Anthony E. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-04-07
China S Saints written by Anthony E. Clark and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with History categories.
The first book-length study of China's Catholic martyr saints, this work recounts the cultural, religious, and economic conflicts that unfolded during China's Qing dynasty (1644–1911). China's Saints considers closely the personal and public lives of both missionaries and Chinese converts lived during China's late-imperial era.
The Chinese Classic Of Family Reverence
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Author : Henry Rosemont
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2008-11-30
The Chinese Classic Of Family Reverence written by Henry Rosemont and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-30 with Religion categories.
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 human qualities of excellence. On the basis of the present translation of the Xiaojing (Classic of Family Reverence) and supplemental passages found in other early philosophical writings, Professors Rosemont and Ames articulate a specifically Confucian conception of "role ethics" that, in its emphasis on a relational conception of the person, is markedly different from most early and contemporary dominant Western moral theories. This Confucian role ethics takes as its inspiration the perceived necessity of family feeling as the entry point in the development of moral competence and as a guide to the religious life as well. In the lengthy introduction, two senior scholars offer their perspective on the historical, philosophical, and religious dimensions of the Xiaojing. Together with this introduction, a lexicon of key terms presents a context for the Xiaojing and provides guidelines for interpreting the text historically in China as well as suggesting its contemporary significance for all societies. The inclusion of the Chinese text adds yet another dimension to this important study. The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence is sure to appeal to specialists of comparative and Chinese philosophy and to all readers interested in the enduring importance of the family.
Comparative Literature In The Light Of Chinese Prosody
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Author : Shudong Chen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-10-31
Comparative Literature In The Light Of Chinese Prosody written by Shudong Chen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In the light of Chinese prosody and various mutually illuminating major cases from the original English, Chinese, French, Japanese and German classical literary texts, the book explores the possibility of discovering “a road not taken” within the road well-trodden in literature. In an approach of “what Wittgenstein calls criss-crossing,” this monographic study, the first ever of this nature, as Roger T. Ames points out in the Foreword, also emphasizes a pivotal “recognition that these Chinese values [revealed in the book] are immediately relevant to the Western narrative as well”; the book demonstrates, in other words, how such a “criss-crossing” approach would be unequivocally possible as long as our critical attention be adequately turned to or pivoted upon the “trivial” matters, a posteriori, in accordance with the live syntactic-prosodic context, such as pauses, stresses, phonemes, function words, or the at once text-enlivened and text-enlivening ambiguity of “parts of speech,” which often vary or alter simultaneously according to and against any definitive definition or set category a priori. This issue pertains to any literary text across cultures because no literary text would ever be possibleif it were not, for instance, literally enlivened by the otherwise overlooked “meaningless” function words or phonemes; the texts simultaneously also enliven these “meaningless” elements and often turn them surreptitiously into sometimes serendipitously meaningful and beautiful sea-change-effecting “les mots justes.” Through the immeasurable and yet often imperceptible influences of these exactly “right words,” our literary texts, such as a poem, could thus not simply “be” but subtly “mean” as if by mere means of its simple, rich, and naturally worded being, truly a special “word picture” of dasDing an sich. Describable metaphorically as “museum effect” and “symphonic tapestry,” a special synaesthetic impact could also likely result from such les-mots-justes-facilitated subtle and yet phenomenal sea changes in the texts.
The Analects Of Confucius
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Author : Roger T. Ames
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2010-11-24
The Analects Of Confucius written by Roger T. Ames and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Philosophy categories.
"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?" --Confucius Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius--informed for the first time by the manuscript version found at Dingzhou in 1973, a partial text dating to 55 BCE and only made available to the scholarly world in 1997. The earliest Analects yet discovered, this work provides us with a new perspective on the central canonical text that has defined Chinese culture--and clearly illuminates the spirit and values of Confucius. Confucius (551-479 BCE) was born in the ancient state of Lu into an era of unrelenting, escalating violence as seven of the strongest states in the proto-Chinese world warred for supremacy. The landscape was not only fierce politically but also intellectually. Although Confucius enjoyed great popularity as a teacher, and many of his students found their way into political office, he personally had little influence in Lu. And so he began to travel from state to state as an itinerant philosopher to persuade political leaders that his teachings were a formula for social and political success. Eventually, his philosophies came to dictate the standard of behavior for all of society--including the emperor himself. Based on the latest research and complete with both Chinese and English texts, this revealing translation serves both as an excellent introduction to Confucian thought and as an authoritative addition to sophisticated debate.
Inside Peking University
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Author : Thorsten Pattberg
language : en
Publisher: Lod Press, New York
Release Date : 2012-04
Inside Peking University written by Thorsten Pattberg and has been published by Lod Press, New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Inside Peking University is a collection of four critical and timeless essays by German cultural master and Confucian scholar Dr. Thorsten Pattberg of Peking University on the Chinese concepts of daxue, shengren, junzi, boshi, wenming, the Qingming Festival, and long (the Chinese dragon).Dr. Pattberg argues for example that the shengren of East-Asia are largely overlooked: They are a class of their own, like the buddhas. To translate them as "philosophers" or "saints" seems imperialistic and all-too-convenient. The shengren are above philosophy and beyond religion -they are quite un-European, and so are the other Chinese concepts advocated in this book.The cases presented in here are emblematic of the widespread abuses of translations in 'Cultural Studies' which, so argues Dr. Pattberg, have distorted the reality of cultural China and subsequently have helped the West to tilt 'World History' toward European sovereignty over definition and classification of thought.The first essay, Language Imperialism, is one of the most thought-provoking and widely read texts in East-Asia Studies today. It has been syndicated thus far throughout several media outlets such as China Daily, Global Times, Global Research, China Today, Xinhua, Asia Times, Japan Times, and the German Times (Die Zeit), among others.
Thinking From The Han
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Author : David L. Hall
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Thinking From The Han written by David L. Hall and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Examines the issues of self (including gender), truth, and transcendence in classical Chinese and Western philosophy.