MAIN PRINCIPLES OF THE EARLY CONFUCIAN CONCEPT OF 'STATE'

• Authors: Pawlowski Jozef
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents an analysis of the early Chinese writings, attributed to the Confucian school in respect of concepts referring to 'state'. The Confucian school of the Zhou dynasty period developed an unique political philosophy and idea of 'state' that had profound influence on whole Chinese political culture. Text below shows what were the terms denoting 'state' and what were the concepts on the essence of state, state's politics and person of good ruler, how they changed and evolved in each of the early Confucian text and answers the question if such notion of state has common points with today recognized theory of state. Paper also explains, how ancient Chinese regarded and understood differences between 'Chinese' states and states settled by people of non-Chinese origin.

Keywords

EN

'STATE' - CONFUCIAN CONCEPT OF; CHINESE POLITICAL CULTURE; PERSON OF GOOD RULER

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 132-136
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pawlowski Jozef

• Jozef Pawlowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Orientalistyczny, ul, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, POland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077913