Formation Of Chinese Humanist Ethics: A Hermeneutic-Semiotic Perspective

Book info: Formation Of Chinese Humanist Ethics: A Hermeneutic-Semiotic Perspective (Hardcover, 824 pages) – Enrich Professional Publishing, 2012. Language: English.

An Overview and Interdisciplinary Analysis of Confucian, Mencian, and Taoist ethics This is the first volume of the 4-volume set The Formation of Chinese Humanist Ethics, this book makes Chinese ethics theoretically more understandable through an interdisciplinary approach from a hermeneutic perspective.

The Analects of Confucius are structurally analyzed so as to reveal the universal truths and pragmatic rationality implied in the maxims of this important classic of world philosophy.

The composition, constitution, and structure of the Han Academic system are studied, and other pre-Qin Chinese ideologies, like Taoist nihilism and Mencian-Confucian ethics, are also discussed.

Content Highlights:

• The Background and Conditions of Han-Confucianism
• The Composition of the Confucian Classics
• The Cultural Consequences of Han-Confucianism
• The Background and Foundation of Confucian Ethical Rationality
• The Pragmatic Aesthetics of Ethical Choice
• The Political Turn of Mencian-Confucian Ethics against Taoist Nihilism and Legalist Philosophy of Power

Editorial Reviews About the Author Youzheng Li is Special Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, and Advisor of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy.

He is the author of An Introduction to Theoretical Semiotics, The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype, The Constitution of Han-Academic Ideology, and Epistemological Problems of the Comparative Humanities.