عنوان

Limits to autocracy :

شابک

0824817036 (acid-free paper)

شابک

9780824817039 (acid-free paper)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Limits to autocracy :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

from Sung Neo-Confucianism to a doctrine of political rights /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Alan T. Wood.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Honolulu :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Hawaii Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c1995.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xvi, 264 p. ;

ابعاد

22 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-254) and index.

متن يادداشت

PART 1: The Historical Dimension -- The Background of Neo-Confucianism -- Background of the Ch'un-ch'iu Commentaries -- PART 2: The Ideological Dimension -- Sun Fu's Views on Obedience to Authority: The Literal/Moral Levels -- The Views of Ch'eng I and Hu An-kuo: The Moral/Metaphysical Levels -- Statecraft and Natural Law in the West and China -- Implications for Modern China and Japan

بدون عنوان

1

متن يادداشت

Many modern scholars of Chinese history, and many Chinese intellectuals throughout the twentieth century, have charged neo-Confucianism with laying the ideological foundations for the growth of autocracy in China. They have especially condemned neo-Confucian political thinkers of the Northern Sung dynasty (960-1127) who promoted a policy of "revering the emperor and expelling the barbarian" (tsun-wang jang-i), accusing them of having advocated a doctrine of unconditional obedience to the ruler and thereby inhibiting the rise of democracy in China. In Limits to Autocracy Alan T. Wood leads readers to a reconsideration of this prevalent view by arguing that Sung neo-Confucianists did not intend to enhance the power of the emperor but limit it. Sung political thinkers, who embedded their most important ideas in commentaries on the Confucian classic the Spring and Autumn Annals, believed passionately in the existence of a moral cosmos governed by universal laws accessible to human understanding. These laws, they believed, transcended the ruler and were not subject to his authority. By affirming the existence of a moral law higher than the ruler, this neo-Confucian doctrine could be used to set limits to his power rather than indulge it. Wood makes a striking comparison of this view with a similar doctrine of universal morality - natural law - that also provided a basis for limiting the power of the ruler and ultimately gave rise to a doctrine of human rights in Europe.

عنوان

Limits to autocracy.

عنوان

Limits to autocracy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Neo-Confucianism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science-- China-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

China, Politics and government.

بدون عنوان

0

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Wood, Alan Thomas.

تاريخ عمليات

20140218102414.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y