Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age

Confucian Ethics of the Axial AgeConfucian Ethics of the Axial Age describes the formative period of Chinese culture the last centuries of the Zhou dynasty as an early epoch of enlightenment. It comprehensively reconstructs the ethical discourse as thought gradually became emancipated from tradition and institutions. Rather than presenting a chronology of different thinkers and works, this book discusses the systematic aspects of moral philosophies. Based on original texts, Roetz

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