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Synthesis of Language and Reality

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With the Lü Shi Chun Qiu , one may say, the 200-year discourse on ming-shi came round full cycle to its starting point in Confucius’s theory of rectifying names.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Lun Yu–Yan Yuan, trans. Wing-tsit Chan, 1963, 39.

  2. 2.

    Ibid, Chan, 40.

  3. 3.

    Lun Yu–Zi Lü, trans. Chan, 40.

  4. 4.

    Gongsun Long Zi–Tong Bian Lun.

  5. 5.

    Gongsun Long Zi–Ji Fu.

  6. 6.

    Mo Bian–Xiao Qu.

  7. 7.

    Xun Zi, Chap. 22, trans. Burton Watson, 1967, 141.

  8. 8.

    Ibid, trans. Watson, 146–147.

  9. 9.

    Guan Zi–Xin Shu Shang.

  10. 10.

    Guan Zi–Bai Xin.

  11. 11.

    Xun Zi, Chap. 22, trans. Watson, 144.

  12. 12.

    Fung Yu-lan, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy (New York: Free Press, 1948), 9.

  13. 13.

    Mou Zongsan, Zhongguo Zhexue Shijiu Jiang (Taibei: Xuesheng Shuju, 1983), 60.

  14. 14.

    John Wu, “Chinese Legal and Political Philosophy,” in C. Moor, ed. The Chinese Mind (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1967), 213.

  15. 15.

    Lun Yu–Shu Er.

  16. 16.

    Lun Yu–Zi Han.

  17. 17.

    Lun Yu–Yao Yue.

  18. 18.

    Mo Zi–Tian Zhi I.

  19. 19.

    Mo Zi–Tian Zhi II.

  20. 20.

    Lao Zi, Chap. 37, trans. Chan, 158.

  21. 21.

    Ibid, Chap. 74, trans. Chan, 173.

  22. 22.

    Ibid, Chap. 57, trans. Chan, 167.

  23. 23.

    Han Fei Zi, Chap. 5, trans. Watson, 16.

  24. 24.

    Angus Graham, Disputers of the Tao (La Salle: Open Court, 1989), 48.

  25. 25.

    Tang Junyi, Zhexue Gailun (Taibei: Xuesheng Shuju, 1989), 536.

  26. 26.

    Han Fei Zi–Jie Lao.

  27. 27.

    See Georg Hegel The Philosophy of History (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1991).

  28. 28.

    Richard Bernstein, Praxis and Action (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), xiv.

  29. 29.

    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1095b.

  30. 30.

    Nicholas Lobkowicz, Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967), 5–6.

  31. 31.

    Ibid, 6.

  32. 32.

    Ibid, 7.

  33. 33.

    Ibid, 8.

  34. 34.

    Ibid.

  35. 35.

    Ibid, 9.

  36. 36.

    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1140a.

  37. 37.

    Aristotle, Magna Moralia, 1211b.

  38. 38.

    Aristotle, Politics, 1325b.

  39. 39.

    Ibid, 1254a.

  40. 40.

    Lobkowicz, 10.

  41. 41.

    Ibid, 11.

  42. 42.

    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1139a.

  43. 43.

    Ibid, 1103b.

  44. 44.

    Bernstein, xiv.

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Sun, Z. (2015). Synthesis of Language and Reality. In: Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54865-9_3

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