A global enlightenment : Western progress and Chinese science /  Alexander Statman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The death of Voltaire's Confucius -- The ex-Jesuit mission in China -- The origins of esotericism -- The yin-yang theory of animal magnetism -- The invention of Eastern wisdom.

"A Global Enlightenment is a book about the idea of Western progress, told through a series of conversations about Chinese science. Its protagonists - an ex-Jesuit missionary, a French statesman, a Manchu prince, Chinese literati, European savants, and other figures of the late Enlightenment world - exchanged ideas across cultures. In telling their stories here, Alexander Statman shows how Chinese science shaped a signature legacy of the European Enlightenment: the idea of Western progress. By focusing on the orphans of the Enlightenment, those who sought to vindicate ancient wisdom as others left it behind, Statman reveals that ideas about the uniqueness of the West - and the mystery, inscrutability, or otherness of the East - did not follow from the Enlightenment idea of progress but had to be invented. The orphans of the Enlightenment believed that the knowledge of the past and the East still had value for modern Europe, and their efforts to recover and explain it, in turn, uncover an unknown story of European engagement with Chinese science. In contrast to the common view, that over the course of the Enlightenment non-Western ideas were banished from European thought, Statman found that the opposite is true. Toward the end of the Enlightenment, Europeans only grew more interested in Chinese science, and this has had lasting effects, from the eighteenth century to today"-- Provided by publisher.

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Chinese thought in early German Enlightenment from Leibniz to Goethe : abortive approaches to transcultural understanding / by Bretislav Horyna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Leibniz's concept of translatio sapientiae as a practice of transcultural exchange -- Theoria cum praxi : Christian Wolff's Oratio de sinarum philosophia practica -- A reconstruction of the teachings of the ancient Chinese according to Georg Bernhard Bilfinger -- Political philosophy and system of government in China : the cameralists Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi -- The world is the antithesis of all opposites : Goethe enchanted by China -- How is transcultural comparison possible?

"The book is a philosophical-historical examination of the influence of the knowledge of China imparted by the Jesuits on the thinking of the German Enlightenment in the 18th century. Is it not primarily concerned with a comprehensive reconstruction of the philosophy of the thinkers discussed, but rather with the political and intellectual contextualisation of a line of thought that recognised the practical philosophy and state organisation of China as different from that of Europe, but equal to it and in some respects superior to it. This challenged the claim of theology that Christian revelation alone provided access to truth. The volume analyses the opposition to this line of thought, especially on the part of Protestant orthodoxy. It argues that in the German Enlightenment of the 18th century, the possibility emerged to conceive philosophy on the basis of reason as a phenomenon not limited to Europe but as a path followed under different conditions in China"-- Provided by publisher.

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Contents: Présentation / J. Sainsaulieu -- La Chine et l'Europe des lumières: rapport sur les recherches récentes faites aux États-Unis / Edmund Leites -- Interprétation de la Chine: Montesquieu et Voltaire / Walter Watson -- Aux origines de la politique des lumières. La chine vue par Matteo Ricci / Michel Cartier -- Le Confucianisme dans l'Angleterre du XVIII^e siècle: la morale naturale et la réforme de la société / Edmund Leites -- La correspondence scientifique du Père Dominique Parrenin (1665-1741) / M^me Yvonne Grover -- Les Souscripteurs de L'Histoire generale de la Chine du P. de Mailla: Aperçus du milieu sinophile français. [The list of subscribers to Fr. Moyriac de Mailla’s Histoire, the French sinophile world] / M^me Milsky -- La compréhension chinoise des méthodes démonstratives euclidiennes au cours du XVII^e et au début au XVIII^e siècle / Jean-Claude Martzloff -- Jean-François Foucquet and the Chinese Books in the French Royal Library: a preliminary survey [Jean-François Foucquet et les livres chinois de la Bibliothèque Royale] / John Witek -- La Vision de la Chine dans les Tapisseries de la manufacture royale de Beauvais: les premières Tentures chinoises / M^me Madeleine Jarry -- L'Exposé des Jésuites de Pékin sur le culte des ancêstres présenté a l'empereur K'ang hi en novembre 1700 / Joseph Dehergne -- The hazardous missions of a Dominican: Victorio Riccio, O.P., in Amoy, Taiwan, and Manila [Les Missions aventureuses d'un Dominicain, Victorio Riccio] / John E. Wills -- A Spanish 18th century Chinese grammar [Une grammaire espagnole de la langue chinoise au XVIII^e siècle] / Knud Lundbaek. Avis: Concordances ; Prochain Colloque.

Added subject keywprds: China and the European Enlightenment, recent research in the United States; European Enlightenment ; Confucianism in 18th century England; natural morality; Euclidean geometry, mathematics, Pythagorian theory in Jesuit Chinese works ; (diagrams included for demonstration); Chinese books in the French Royal Library ; Figurism ; Beauvais tapestries images of China ; Chinese rites controversy. Maigrot, Kangxi ; Dominican missions, Amoy, Taiwan, Manila ; on the Spanish Augustinians Juan Rodriguez & José Villanueva composition of a Chinese grammar.

序章 -- 第一部 クプレ『中国の哲学者孔子』の中国哲学観.
第一章 『中国の哲学者孔子』「序説」についてはじめに -- 第一節 真なる神と理性の光 -- 第二節 張居正 -- 第三節 『易』解釈
第二章 『中国の哲学者孔子』の儒教古典解釈はじめに -- 第一節 理性・博愛・最高善 -- 第二節 平天下と理性 -- 第三節 性理と理性 -- 第四節 「霊」の実在 -- 第五節 理性認識の書 -- 第二部 ノエル『中華帝国の六古典』の儒教倫理称揚
第三章 『中華帝国の六古典』の儒教古典解釈（Ⅰ） はじめに -- 第一節 ノエルと『大学』 第二節 物理と知性を貫くＲａｔｉｏ) -- 第三節 理性と天命
第四章 『中華帝国の六古典』の儒教古典解釈（Ⅱ） -- はじめに -- 第一節 天道と死 -- 第二節 性善と民本と革命と -- 第三節 「孝」の宇宙論 -- 第三部 ヴォルフ−ヨーロッパ啓蒙への儒教インパクト
第五章 『中国実践哲学講演』（Ⅰ） はじめに -- 第一節 ヴォルフと中国哲学の周辺 -- 第二節 ヴォルフの孔子評価 -- 第三節 ヴォルフの「天」 -- 第四節 中国哲学の原理
第六章 『中国実践哲学講演』（Ⅱ）-- 第一節 『大学』 -- 第二節 実践哲学の実例としての中国 -- 第三節 日新の工夫 -- 第四節 最高善か完成か -- 第五節 ヴォルフの見る中国哲学の宇宙構造論
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