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u/mangasm · 2 pointsr/motorcycles

No problem at all.

The texts I have are Moss Roberts' translation of the Daodejing, Ziporyn's translation of Zhuangzi, and then Ivanhoe and Van Norden's Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.

The Ivanhoe/Van Norden book has the Daodejing and other works in it so it's probably not worth the money until you've gone through the Daodejing maybe (and want to compare translations), but if you're mostly just interested in the Zhuangzi strain of Daoism the Zhuangzi texts are probably more than enough. Though confusing, they're not quite as abstract as the Daodejing itself (and the commentary in Ziporyn's text helps a lot).


http://www.amazon.com/Dao-Jing-Book-Way-Laozi/dp/0520242211/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301237538&sr=1-1 and


http://www.amazon.com/Zhuangzi-Essential-Selections-Traditional-Commentaries/dp/0872209113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301237406&sr=8-1


http://www.amazon.com/Readings-Classical-Chinese-Philosophy-Ivanhoe/dp/0872207803/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301237612&sr=1-1

u/smashbang · 2 pointsr/EasternPhilosophy

It looks like this is the companion book to their Pre-Qin book, which I used to teach an intro class on classical Chinese philosophy. That book is the most complete/convenient book on Warring States thought, so it looks like this would fulfill the same need with Dynastic thought. Although, based on the table of contents, it doesn't look like the 20th century chapter would be that complete or critical of the CCP.

u/gnomicarchitecture · 2 pointsr/askphilosophy

It sounds like you're interested in Chinese (and eastern) philosophy and thought. I'd recommend starting with this:

An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy, Karyn Lai, Cambridge (2008).

And then seeing which schools of thought you are most interested in. Certain schools of thought are more of a hot topic right now than others, particularly in ethics and political philosophy, so which one you end up liking will affect what you have to work with. I don't want to mention ones that are a particularly big deal for fear of biasing you. You can explore these further than Lai's book describes by using this:

Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, P.J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden, Hackett (2006).

I am not very familiar with Chinese Philosophy though, so I would cross check these recommendations with somebody actually involved in the subject. It is a dying field in the west so it would be great if you ended up interested in pursuing it so we can win some great thinkers back and do some cool collaborative research.

u/Snietzschean · 1 pointr/askphilosophy

There's probably a few ways you could go about expanding your knowledge base. The two that seem most fruitful are

  1. Reading for a deeper understanding of the topics that you're already familiar with.

  2. Ranging more broadly into other areas that may interest you.

    If (1), then I'd probably suggest one of two courses. Either, (a) read the stuff that influenced the existential thinkers that you've listed, or (b) read some literature dealing with issues related to the thinkers you've listed.

    For (a) I'd suggest the following:

  • Anything by Kant
  • (In the case of Kierkegaard) Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit or his Aesthetics
  • (For Nietzsche) Emerson's essays, Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation, or Spinoza's Ethics
  • Maybe some Freud for the later thinkers? Civilization and its Discontents is really good.

    For (b) it's really a mixed bag. I'd suggest going through the SEP articles on the thinkers you've listed and looking into some good secondary literature on them. If you're super interested in Nietzsche, I'd definitely suggest reading Leiter's Nietzsche on Morality. I really couldn't tell you more unless you told me something more specific about your interests.

    If (2), then I suppose I'd suggest one of the following:

  • Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy for a good, broad introduction to Chinese Thought
  • The Analects of Confucius. This translation is excellent
  • A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
  • Heidegger's Being and Time
  • Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
  • Some of Rilke's work
  • Unamuno's Tragic Sense of Life

    Again, it's hard to give you better directions without more information on what you're actually interested in. I've just thrown a bunch of stuff at you, and you couldn't possibly be expected to read, say, Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation over break and be expected to really understand it.
u/1100220033 · 1 pointr/askphilosophy

Ok, so assuming I'm mainly interested in viewing this from a more Confucian perspective rather than Buddhist atm, and that I want to firmly start with one book and then either leave it at that or maybe move on to the first more advanced modern suggestion, which one should I read? It sounds like either Van Norden or Philip Ivanhoe just based on the order that you suggested it in.

u/LocalAmazonBot · 0 pointsr/askphilosophy

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