Issues:

• The connections between "State Confucianism" and the imperial bureaucracy
• The role of "law" in a "Confucian" society

Activities:

• Presentation by Dr. Spendelow
• Class discussion

Readings:

Discussion:

1. Schwartz, Benjamin I.  "Some Polarities in Confucian Thought"
2. Graham, A. C. "The Place of Reason in the Chinese Philosophical Tradition," in Dawson, ed., The Legacy of China, pp. 28-56

 

Background:

1. Schwartz, Benjamin I. The World of Thought in Ancient China (Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1985)
2. Rubin, Vitaly A. Individual and State in Ancient China:  Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers, trans. S. I. Levine (Columbia, 1976)