Mao Qiling’s Critical Reflections on the Four Books
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After introducing some scholarship on the value of Mao Qiling’s (1623–1713) works, we present an account of canonization processes in order to understand the hermeneutic context of Mao’s battle with the Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy. His work is an attempt to decanonizing Zhu Xi’s Four Books, preferring instead an alternative relying on the Old Texts of the Taixue
/Daxue
and Zhongyong 
. Mao argues against Zhu Xi’s textual changes and interpretations on a number of bases, producing a hermeneutics of suspicion against the Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy. Instead, Mao offers an alternative account of the sagely way, following precedents of Wang Yangming.
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Mao Qiling’s Critical Reflections on the Four Books
In: Journal of Chinese PhilosophySearch for other papers by Lauren F. Pfister in
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After introducing some scholarship on the value of Mao Qiling’s (1623–1713) works, we present an account of canonization processes in order to understand the hermeneutic context of Mao’s battle with the Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy. His work is an attempt to decanonizing Zhu Xi’s Four Books, preferring instead an alternative relying on the Old Texts of the Taixue/Daxueand Zhongyong . Mao argues against Zhu Xi’s textual changes and interpretations on a number of bases, producing a hermeneutics of suspicion against the Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy. Instead, Mao offers an alternative account of the sagely way, following precedents of Wang Yangming.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 99 | 16 | 4 |
| Full Text Views | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 28 | 3 | 0 |