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"As the final work by Ye Xiushan, one of the most famous philosophers and scholars of philosophy in China, this two-volume set scrutinizes the historical development of both Chinese and Western philosophy, aiming to explore the convergence between the two philosophical traditions. Combining historical examination and argumentation based on philosophical problematics, the author discusses the key figures and schools of thought from both traditions. Far from being a cursory comparison between different philosophical concepts and categories, the author discusses the logical paths and conceptual approaches of the two traditions on the same philosophical issues, thus giving insights into conceptual categories commonly used in both Chinese and Western philosophies. The two volumes illuminate the different core spirits and dilemmas of Western philosophy and Chinese philosophy, encouraging a constructive dialogue between the two and a new transformation of Chinese philosophy in itself. The title will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers interested in philosophical history, comparative philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and Western philosophy ranging over Greek philosophy, German classic philosophy, and contemporary continental philosophy"--

The article discusses the processes that at the turn of the VI–V centuries B.C. were evolving to give rise to the authentic philosophical tradition in China. The author considers the formation of a community of people who keep themselves within the framework of certain reflective practices as the hallmark of this rise. The evolution set off during the "Iron Age Cold Epoch" that occurred on the planet in the early 1st millennium B.C. The civilizational response to this cool­ing in China was the extensive development of agriculture, which, in turn, led to demographic growth, the enhancement of the socio-political structure of society and the emergence of demand for competent managers. The social base for them turned out to be the lowest nobility – the "officers" shi. Unlike the aristocrats zhuhou at the highest tier of power, the "officers" shi were interested in main­taining the moral status of the "noble person" junzi. The existential space of this status could only be maintained through permanent reflection. The criterion for maintaining one's moral status was not only social behavior in accordance with this status, but also its existential experience, devotion not to external factors, but to an internal idea, responsibility to oneself. The Confucian effort to compre­hend and to pass on those reflective practices became the beginning of Chinese philosophy

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer -- 1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the "Canon of Yao" /Martin Kern -- 2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu /Kai Vogelsang -- 3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from "Gu ming" 顧命 /Dirk Meyer -- 4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the "Duo shi" 多士 and "Duo fang" 多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the "Shang shi" 商誓 Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu  /Joachim Gentz -- 5 The Qinghua "Jinteng" 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou /Magnus Ribbing Gren -- 6 "Shu" Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of "Jinteng" 金縢 and "Zhou Wu Wang you ji" 周武王有疾 /Dirk Meyer -- 7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches /Yegor Grebnev -- 8 The "Harangues" (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu  /Martin Kern -- 9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts /David Schaberg -- 10 A Toiling Monarch? The "Wu yi" 無逸 Chapter Revisited /Yuri Pines -- 11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of "Wu yi" 無逸 /Michael Hunter -- 12 "Bi shi" 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China /Maria Khayutina -- 13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu  /Charles Sanft -- 14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu "Yu gong" 禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu "Wang hui" 王會 /Robin McNeal -- Index /Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer.

Introduction -- The Pre-Qin Period (ca. 1046 – 256 BCE) -- The Rise of Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism -- The High Tide of Contention among the "Hundred Schools of Thought" -- The Summing-up Stage of Pre-Qin Philosophy -- From the Qin-Han to the Qing Dynasty -- The Supremacy of Confucianism and Criticisms of Confucian Theology -- Mysterious Learning and the Coexistence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism -- A Tendency towards the Confluence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism -- The Summing-up Stage of Ancient Chinese Philosophy -- Modern Period -- The Forerunners of Modern Chinese Philosophy -- The Stage of Evolutionism in the Philosophical Revolution -- The Philosophical Revolution Enters the Stage of Materialist Dialectics -- The Sinicization of Marxism and the Contributions Made by Professional Philosophers.

The article attempts to analyze the problem of spirituality in the works of Chinese authors. The authors emphasize that in the studies of Chinese philosophers, ethnographers, historians, the problem of spirituality is presented in two aspects. Chinese authors explain spirituality as a spiritual culture that determines the degree of human spiritual activity in the study of Chinese culture. This explains the following fact. Chinese philosophers view Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism as the spiritual activities of the great sages. We see a different attitude towards the concept of spirituality when they interpret Russian Orthodoxy in China and its role in the formation of Russian culture. In the first case, we are talking about the role of the Orthodox Church in China directly. Therefore, Chinese authors focus on Orthodoxy as a liturgical activity in the context of their research. When they analyze the role of the Orthodox faith in Russian culture, they write about it as a factor that shapes the Russian character and mentality. An analysis of the works of Chinese authors led to the following conclusion. The interpretation of spirituality in the works of Chinese authors is presented as a spiritual social activity. The article presents the works of Chinese philosophers who have not been addressed in Russian studies.

Surprisingly little is known about what ancient Confucian thinkers struggled with in their own social and political contexts and how these struggles contributed to the establishment and further development of classical Confucian political theory. Leading scholar of comparative political theory, Sungmoon Kim offers a systematic philosophical account of the political theories of Mencius and Xunzi, investigating both their agreements and disagreements as the champions of the Confucian Way against the backdrop of the prevailing realpolitik of the late Warring States period. Together, they contributed to the formation of Confucian virtue politics, in which concerns about political order and stability and concerns about moral character and moral enhancement are deeply intertwined. By presenting their political philosophies in terms of constitutionalism, Kim shows how they each developed the ability to authorize the ruler's legitimate use of power in domestic and interstate politics in ways consistent with their distinctive accounts of human nature.