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荀子

《荀子》是战国后期儒家学派最重要的著作。《荀子》全书一共32篇,是荀子和弟子们整理或记录他人言行的文字,今存三十二篇,除少数篇章外,大部分是他自己所写。该书旨在总结当时学术界的百家争鸣和自己的学术思想,反映唯物主义自然观、认识论思想以及荀况的伦理、政治和经济思想。他的文章擅长说理,组织严密,分析透辟,善于取譬,常用排比句增强议论的气势,语言精炼,有很强的说服力和感染力。

本书包括639个单句。

Xunzi is the most important work of the Confucian school in the late Warring States Period. There are a total of 32 books in the book, which are the words that the blind and disciples sort out or record the words and deeds of others. There are thirty-two articles in this place. Except for a few chapters, most of them are written by Xunzi. The book aims to summarize the contending and academic ideas of the academic circles at that time, reflecting the ethical, political, and economic ideas of materialistic views of nature, epistemology, and embarrassment. His articles are good at reasoning, well-organized, analytical and thorough, and good at taking advantage of them. They often use the sentence to enhance the momentum of discussion, language refinement, and have strong persuasiveness and appeal.

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荀子

荀子(约公元前313年-公元前238年),战国末期赵国人。荀子是一个著名思想家、文学家、政治家。荀子推崇孔子的思想,并以孔子的继承人自居,特别着重的继承了孔子的“外王学”。此外,他对儒家思想有所发展,提倡性恶论,常被与孟子的性善论比较,对重整儒家典籍也有相当的贡献。他从知识论的立场上批判的总结和吸收了诸子百家的理论主张,形成了富有特色的“明于天人之分”的自然观、“化性起伪”的道德观、“礼仪之治”的社会历史观,并在此基础上,对先秦哲学进行了总结。

Xunzi (about 313 BC - 238 BC), was a famous thinker, writer, and politician of the end of the Warring States Period. Xunzi respected Confucius's thoughts and lived with Confucius' heirs, with particular emphasis on Confucius' "foreign king studies." In addition, he had developed Confucianism and advocated the evil theory. He was often compared with Mencius's theory of goodness and had a considerable contribution to the reorganization of Confucian classics. From the standpoint of epistemology, he summed up and absorbed the theoretical claims of the philosophers, and formed a characteristic view of the nature of "the distinction between heaven and man", the morality of "chemical pseudo-pseudo", and "ceremonies." On the basis of the social history view of the rule of governance, the pre-Qin philosophy was summarized.

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《荀子》 Xunzi

Eric L. Hutton是位于盐湖城的犹他大学的哲学系副教授。 他的研究领域包括中国古代哲学,古希腊哲学和当代伦理学理论。 除了在期刊和选集上发表大量文章外,他还编撰了《荀子》的完整英文译本(普林斯顿大学出版社,2014年),并编辑了《道家的荀子哲学》(Springer2016)。 他(与Justin Tiwald)是牛津中国思想新翻译系列的共同主编。



Eric L. Hutton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His areas of research include ancient Chinese philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, and contemporary ethical theory. In addition to publishing numerous articles in journals and anthologies, he has produced a complete English translation of the Xunzi(Princeton University Press,2014) and edited the Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi(Springer,2016). He serves as co-editor (with Justin Tiwald) of the new translation series Oxford Chinese Thought.