دانلود کتاب Instructions For Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-Ming

This volume containing the major works o£ Wang Yang-ming is one of a group of publications, the Translations from the Oriental Classics, through which the Committee on Oriental Studies has sought to transmit to Western readers representative works of the Oriental traditions in thought and literature. In its volumes of source readings forming the “ Introduction to Oriental Civilizations,” the Committee has provided a broad selection of excerpts from influential thinkers in India, China, and Japan, discussing the great problems of their times in historical sequence. Insofar as a reading of what Asian peoples have written for their own delight and edification may give us a sympathetic insight into their alien traditions, the present series fulfills the same purpose. Where it differs from any survey, however—and differs also from drugstore anthologies which present the East always in aphorism or epigram— is that it makes major works or authors available in something more substantial than excerpts, and in accurate, readable translations prepared for the general reader as well as the scholar.
Wang Yang-ming, we must admit, is no popular writer nor has he been universally esteemed. He writes in the classical style, in a distinctive Confucian context. And the place he has won in the high tradition, instead of rendering him immune from attack, has ensured that he would be at the center of intellectual controversy ever since. Yet what he has to say—concerning man’s moral sense, the inner springs of human motivation, the integrity of the individual in thought and action, human nature and man’s place in the universe—has found a deep response in the lives of educated Japanese and Koreans as well as Chinese. Both samurai officers of Imperial Japan and Sun Yat-sen’s republican revolutionaries, both Chiang Kai-shek and some of his severest intellectual critics, have acknowledged Wang Yang-ming as their chief philosophical inspiration.