https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/567162
標題: | Xun Zi's Image across the Qin-Han Period: Three Types of Discourse on a "Great Confucian" and Their Significance in Intellectual History | 作者: | ZHEN-XUN WU | 關鍵字: | discourse on a great Confucian | image of Xun Zi | Liu Xiang | Sima Qian | Xun Zi | 公開日期: | 1-一月-2014 | 卷: | 35 | 期: | 1 | 來源出版物: | Social Sciences in China | 摘要: | This article scrutinizes three texts about Xun Zi written during the Qin-Han period: the final part of "The Questions of Yao" in the Xunzi, a rebuttal by one of Xun Zi's disciples of the idea that Xun Zi was inferior to Confucius; "Mencius and Xun Zi" by Sima Qian in his Records of the Grand Historian; and the Annotated Book of the Xunzi by Liu Xiang. We explore the images of Xun Zi as a great Confucian that emerge from these texts, as well as their authors' motives for writing. These texts are understood within three contexts: first, the self-identification of a Confucian; second, the dispute between Confucianism and Daoism; and lastly, the distinction between the classics and the annals and biographies. Due to their different discourse environments, Xun Zi's great Confucian image project a different significance in each: in one, he is a model of action who can act in accordance with perfected morality; in another, he is a model of "private words," who can counter the philosophers of his day and become the teacher of kings; and finally, he is a model of "official learning," able to use his knowledge of the classics in practical statecraft and elucidate the kingly Way. Overall, these three texts represent three types of discourse on a great Confucian. At the same time, they also exhibit their writers' consciousness of their times and their views of the genealogy of daotong, or transmission of the Way; hence their significance for intellectual history. © 2014 © 2014 Social Sciences in China Press. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/567162 | ISSN: | 02529203 | DOI: | 10.1080/02529203.2013.875658 |
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