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Munro, Donald Jacques was born on March 5, 1931 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas B. and Lucile (Nadler) Munro.
( American politicians often claim a moral imperative to ...)
American politicians often claim a moral imperative to ensure quality affordable health care to all Americans, but as Donald Munro points out, leaders rarely outline the content of this moral standard and whether it can be applied to all societies. Munro turns to recent research in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to identify the ethical principles that help humans succeed as individuals and as cooperative groups. He then applies these principles to two practical problems affecting contemporary China: the moral complexity of responding to global warming and the lack of consistency within the Chinese legal system.
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In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). For nearly six centuries Confucian orthodoxy was based on Chu Hsi's commentaries on Confucian classics. These commentaries were the core of the curriculum studied by candidates for the civil service in China until 1905 and provided guidelines both for personal behavior and for official policy. Munro finds the key to the complexities of Chu Hsi's thought in his mode of discourse: the structural images of family, stream of water, mirror, body, plant, and ruler. Furthermore, he discloses the basic framework of Chu Hsi's ethics and the theory of human nature that is provided by these illustrative images. As revealed by Munro, Chu Hsi's thought is polarized between family duty and a broader altruism and between obedience to external authority and self-discovery of moral truth. To understand these tensions moves us toward clarifying the meaning of each idea in the sets. The interplay of these ideas, selectively emphasized over time by later Confucians, is a background for explaining modern Chinese thought. In it, among other things, Confucianism and Marxism-Leninism co-exist. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studies of Chinese philosophy," a work "combining philosophical acumen with sinological competence that raises the study of early Chinese thought to a new level of sophistication," "The Concept of Man in Early China" remains a staple in the study of early Chinese civilization. Addressing the very roots of Chinese culture and thought, this path-breaking work frequently compares concepts from the Confucian and Taoist traditions with those from Western classical philosophy. Donald J. Munro clearly identifies key ideas about human nature and links these ideas within the intellectual universe of classical China.
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Part of a trilogy exploring how ideas about human nature have shaped practices of social control and education over the course of Chinese history, this volume explores how the most striking political theories and policies of the contemporary period rest on distinctly Chinese theories of mind. Many of these contrast dramatically with long-held Western beliefs, key among them the insistence on the commingling of rational thought, the emotions, and motives. Focusing on the Maoist period (1940s through 1976), Munro reveals convergences between Confucian and Maoist theories of mind, and considers their application in both education and the practice of modern government. Donald J. Munro is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Chinese, University of Michigan. His work and career were recently profiled in Xifang Hanxuejia lun Zhongguo (Western sinologists on China), a review of seven key Western contributors to the study of Chinese culture and history.
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( Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studi...)
Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studies of Chinese philosophy," a work "combining philosophical acumen with sinological competence that raises the study of early Chinese thought to a new level of sophistication," The Concept of Man in Early China remains a staple in the study of early Chinese civilization. Addressing the very roots of Chinese culture and thought, this path-breaking work frequently compares concepts from the Confucian and Taoist traditions with those from Western classical philosophy. Donald J. Munro clearly identifies key ideas about human nature and links these ideas within the intellectual universe of classical China.
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( Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studi...)
Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studies of Chinese philosophy," a work "combining philosophical acumen with sinological competence that raises the study of early Chinese thought to a new level of sophistication," The Concept of Man in Early China remains a staple in the study of early Chinese civilization. Addressing the very roots of Chinese culture and thought, this path-breaking work frequently compares concepts from the Confucian and Taoist traditions with those from Western classical philosophy. Donald J. Munro clearly identifies key ideas about human nature and links these ideas within the intellectual universe of classical China.
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(A link running through many of the essays in this volume ...)
A link running through many of the essays in this volume is between evolutionary biology and Chinese ethics. Since the 1960s and 1970s, within the fields of biology, psychology, and neurology are findings that advance our knowledge of how the mind functions, with special attention to social behavior. Donald Munro's focus is on what this development means, narrowly for the study of Confucian ethics, and broadly for Chinese contributions to any international discussion of moral topics.
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Munro, Donald Jacques was born on March 5, 1931 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas B. and Lucile (Nadler) Munro.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy (Ford Foundation fellow), Columbia University, 1964.
Assistant professor philosophy, University of Michigan, 1964-1968;
associate professor, University of Michigan, 1968-1973;
professor philosophy, University of Michigan, 1973-1996;
professor philosophy and Asian languages, University of Michigan, 1990-1996;
professor emeritus philosophy and Chinese, since 1996;
department chairman Asian languages and cultures, University of Michigan, 1993-1995;
visiting research philosopher, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-1970;
associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, since 1964;
Chairman of Commission on studies of Chinese civilization, American Council Learned Socs., 1979-1981. Member Committee on Scholarly Communication with People's Republic China, 1978-1982, China Council of Asia Society, 1977-1980, Committee on Advanced Study inChina, 1978-1982, National Committee on United States-China Rels., National Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, since 1986. Evans-Wentz lecturer Stanford University, 1970.
Fritz lecturer U. Washington, 1980. Gilbert Ryle lecturer Trent U., Ontario, 1983;John Dewey lecturer U. Vermont, 1989. Visiting Research.scholar Chinese Academy Social Sciences Institute Philosophy, Beijing, 1983, department philosophy Beijing U., 1990.
(Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studies...)
( Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studi...)
( Hailed at its first release as "exceptional among studi...)
( Part of a trilogy exploring how ideas about human natur...)
( Part of a trilogy exploring how ideas about human natur...)
( American politicians often claim a moral imperative to ...)
( In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studie...)
(A link running through many of the essays in this volume ...)
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Member of Executive Committee College Literature, Science and The Arts University of Michigan, 1986-1989. Served to Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1953-1957. Member Association for Asian Studies (China and Inner Asia Council 1970-1972), Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.
Married Ann Maples Patterson, March 3, 1956. 1 child, Sarah de la Roche.