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Intertextuality In Early Chinese Masters-Texts: Shared Narratives In Shi Zi, Paul Fischer
Intertextuality In Early Chinese Masters-Texts: Shared Narratives In Shi Zi, Paul Fischer
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
(Introduction) Prior to Chinese unification in 221 bc and the beginning of imperial history, there was a “golden age” of philosophical debate among various scholars about the best way to live life, construct a social contract, and act in harmony with heaven and earth. The most influential of these scholars, collectively called the “various masters,” or zhu zi 諸子, attracted disciples who recorded the teachings of their “masters” and passed these teachings on. These texts, collectively called “masters- texts” (zi shu 子書), became the bedrock of Chinese intellectual history.
Jeremy Bentham: Syncretistic Utilitarian, William Day
Jeremy Bentham: Syncretistic Utilitarian, William Day
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
During the period of reaction in England after the Napoleonic wars, a new generation of reformers developed, who abjured the belief in natural rights already discredited by the Jacobin excesses.1 These individuals sought a personality around whom they could center their program. Jeremy Bentham, a seemingly apolitical man, gradually became the personification of the new methodology. Crane Brinton has written, "scarcely has an English thinker left a more definite trice upon English legislation than Jeremy Bentham."2 So involved are the implications of the system and the man who introduced the new science" that interest is produced by the …