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To: alt.philosophy.taoism From: wsnyder@powergrid.electriciti.com (Bill Snyder) Subject: Re: Short History of Chinese Philosophy Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:51:57 GMT laska@netcom.com (Andrew Laska) wrote: >I have the book and I am reading it. > >My question is aimed at someone who knows more about Chinese >philosophical history than I. > It is a reasonably good book, though somewhat dated. I used to use it in a Chinese philosophy course which I taught along with Wing Tsit Chan's book of readings (Readings in Chinese Philosophy?). At that time it was either Fung or Creel, and I preferred Fung. Some of his biases are fairly evident, but they clutter up his critical comments not his accounts of doctrine. I would recommend supplementing it with some readings in the texts: Analects, Doctrine of the Mean, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, e.g. Chan's book mentioned above (and, I think, still in print - Princeton University Press paperback) is an excellent collection of materials. -- Bill Snyder (wsnyder@powergrid.electriciti.com) "The way up and the way down are the same." - Heraclitus
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