The World of Thought in Ancient China

Benjamin I. Schwartz

  • Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association

Introduction

1. Early Cultural Orientations: Issues and Speculations

2. Early Chou Thought: Continuity and Breakthrough

3. Confucius: The Vision of the Analects

4. Mo-tzu's Challenge

5. The Emergence of a Common Discourse: Some Key Terms

6. The Ways of Taoism

7. The Defense of the Confucian Faith: Mencius and Hsün-tzu

8. Legalism: The Behavioral Science

9. Correlative Cosmology: The "School of Yin and Yang"

10. The Five Classics

Postscript

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Glossary

Index

  • Cover: The World of Thought in Ancient China
  • A photo of the author

Benjamin I. Schwartz is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus, Harvard University.