Description: Confucian Creation of Heaven : Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery, Paperback by Eno, Robert, ISBN 079140191X, ISBN-13 9780791401910, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Demonstrating that the relation between practice and theory in early Confucianism is highly systematic, the author suggests that Confucianism represents a species of 'synthetic' philosophy, distinct from the analytical traditions of the West but equally rigorous in its attempt to disclose the foundations of understanding. He illustrates how theory served as an ancillary activity, expressing ethical insights derived from the systematic structure of core ritual practice, and legitimizing those insights in terms of teleological model of their efficacy in creating a divinely ordained political utopia. The central agenda of the early Confucians is pictured as the preservation and promotion of ritual skills and the aesthetic social perspectives they generate. Metaphysical and political theory serve as practical vehicles mediating between the skill-based philosophy of the early Confucian community and the changing features of the intellectual, social, and political environments in which that community had to survive.
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Book Title: Confucian Creation of Heaven : Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery
Number of Pages: 349 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Topic: Asia / General, Confucianism
Publication Year: 1990
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Robert B. Eno
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
