Emperor Taizong (r. 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and Taizong's construction of a reputation for moral rulership through his own literary writings - with particular attention to his poetry. The author highlights the relationship between historiography and the literary and rhetorical strategies of ...(展开全部)

History in our day is still a story, and yet one that we expect to tell the truth-not just the people and the events of the past, but the invisible order and forces behind them. How can the language of history balance these seemingly contrary tasks, the narrative, the scientific, and the political? This is the question Jacques Rancière explores in The Names of History, a medita...(展开全部)

History in our day is still a story, and yet one that we expect to tell the truth-not just the people and the events of the past, but the invisible order and forces behind them. How can the language of history balance these seemingly contrary tasks, the narrative, the scientific, and the political? This is the question Jacques Rancière explores in The Names of History, a medita...(展开全部)

本书为吴经熊博士十余年来研究禅宗的心得结晶。经其弟子吴怡博士译成中文。该书以深入浅出的手法，生动活泼的文字，叙述禅宗自达摩印心，惠能开宗，及五家传灯的盛况。不仅故事生动，引人入胜，而且对公案的透视，人物的描写，禅境的烘托，尤多精辟的见解。

在线阅读本书 Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's quest...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's quest...(展开全部)

Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This bri...(展开全部)