A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
Translated by Wing-tsit Chan
Princeton University Press, 1963
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Wing-tsit Chan’s anthology of Chinese philosophy in translation, from Confucius and Laozi through the Buddhist schools to the Neo-Confucians and modern thinkers, with introductions to each, long the standard English reader in the subject.
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A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Translated by Wing-tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1963.
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Traditions
- ConfucianismThe Chinese tradition of learning, ritual and humaneness founded on the teaching of Confucius.
- Neo-ConfucianismThe Confucian revival of the Song and Ming dynasties, with its philosophy of principle and its discipline of self-cultivation.
- DaoismThe Chinese philosophical and religious tradition of the Dao, the Way.