Dong Zhongshu
Dong Zhongshu ( Chinese 董仲舒 , Pinyin Dŏng Zhòngshū , W.-G. Tung Chung-shu ; * 179 BC , † 104 BC ) was a representative of the Confucian New Text School in the Han period .
Image of man
Dong Zhongshu's image of man forms a balance between that of Menzius and that of Xun Zi . He differentiates between a “natural disposition” (性, xing) and an “emotional state” (情, qing), whereby for him the former is rather good, the latter rather bad. Humans are always between these two extremes and can move more towards nature through education. Only through moral learning can a person move towards good, but he is still not inherently bad, as Xun Zi believes, since the basis for developing towards good lies in people from the very beginning.
Individual evidence
- ^ Roger T. Ames: Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu). In: Antonio S. Cua (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy. New York 2003, p. 239.
literature
- Harald Borges: Dong Zhongshu. The perhaps a little surprising lover of all kinds of disasters . In the S. Dragon, unicorn, phoenix, about ancient Chinese thinking. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1993, pp. 117-144.
- A. Pfizmaier: Tung-tschung-schü's answers to the surveys of the Son of Heaven . In: Meeting reports of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Vienna 39 (1862), pp. 345–384.
- Tung Chung-shu: Ch'un-ch'iu Fan-lu. Lush dew of the spring and autumn classic. Translation and annotation of chapters one to six by RH Gassmann, Bern / Frankfurt / New York 1988.
- Zhang Chunbo: The Role of History in the Philosophy of Dong Zhongshu. In: Chinese Studies in Philosophy 12, 2, 1980, pp. 87-103.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dong Zhongshu in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dong, Zhongshu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 董仲舒, Tung Chung-shu (Wade-Giles) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Representative of the Confucian New Text School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 179 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 104 BC Chr. |