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- Title
<italic>Tian</italic> as Cosmos in Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism.
- Authors
Angle, Stephen C.
- Abstract
<italic>Tian</italic> 天 is central to the metaphysics, cosmology, and ethics of the 800-year-long Chinese philosophical tradition we call “Neo-Confucianism,” but there is considerable confusion over what <italic>tian</italic> means—confusion which is exacerbated by its standard translation into English as “Heaven.” This essay analyzes the meaning of <italic>tian</italic> in the works of the most influential Neo-Confucian, Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200), presents a coherent interpretation that unifies the disparate aspects of the term’s meaning, and argues that “cosmos” does an excellent job of capturing this meaning and therefore should be adopted as our translation of <italic>tian</italic>.
- Subjects
CONFUCIANISM; METAPHYSICS; METAPHYSICAL cosmology; CONFUCIAN philosophy; CHINESE philosophy; NEO-Confucianism
- Publication
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
1540-3009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11712-018-9599-5