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Philosophy
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The Doctrine of the Mean (Focusing the Familiar)
A short text that was originally a chapter of the Book of Rites (Liji) and was later made one of the Four Books by Zhu Xi, after which…
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The Art of War
A treatise on military strategy in thirteen short chapters, traditionally attributed to Sun Wu, a general said to have served the state of Wu around 500 BCE; most…
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Balanced Inquiries (Lunheng)
A large collection of essays, eighty-five in number with one lost, in which Wang Chong, a scholar of modest official rank in the Eastern Han, tests the beliefs…
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Reflections on Things at Hand
An anthology compiled by Zhu Xi with his friend Lü Zuqian, gathering some six hundred passages from four Northern Song thinkers: Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and…
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Instructions for Practical Living
Records of conversations with Wang Yangming and letters he wrote to students, compiled by his disciples in three parts, the first published during his lifetime. It is the…
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Evidential Commentary on the Meanings of Terms in the Mencius
Dai Zhen's philosophical masterpiece, finished shortly before his death, takes the form of a commentary on key terms in the Mencius, such as principle (li), the Way, nature,…
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Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning
Yi Hwang, known as Toegye, presented this work to the young King Seonjo of Joseon in 1568 as a compact course in self-cultivation for a ruler. It consists…
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Tannishō (A Record in Lament of Divergences)
A short work in eighteen sections compiled by Yuien, a disciple of Shinran, the founder of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) Buddhism, some decades after his teacher's death.…
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The Structure of Iki
A short book in which Kuki Shūzō, who had studied in Europe with Rickert and Heidegger and met Bergson, analyses iki, an aesthetic and ethical style that took…
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Ethics (Rinrigaku)
Watsuji Tetsurō's three-volume system of ethics, built on an analysis of the Japanese word for human being, ningen, written with characters meaning 'human' and 'between'. Watsuji argues that…
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