Eclectic School

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The syncretists or eclectic school ( Chinese  雜家  /  杂家 , Pinyin Zájiā , W.-G. Tsa-chia ) was a school of philosophy in ancient China, the Warring States Period to the early period of the Western Han Dynasty was active. She made a comprehensive synthesis of the theories of Confucianism , Daoism , Mohism and legalism, as well as the school of logicians . The books Lüshi chunqiu ( Spring and Autumn of Lü Buwei ) and Huainanzi are usually mentioned as representative works of this school . In the Hanshu yiwenzhi ( Chinese  漢書 · 藝文志  /  汉书 · 艺文志  - "Bibliographical Section of the History of the Earlier Han Dynasty"), the literature catalog (of the Hanshu ) which is authoritative for understanding the pre-Qin period , this intellectual trend becomes one of the Nine currents counted. Shizi 尸 子 is traded as China's first syncretist .

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References and footnotes

  1. Article: "Eclectic School", in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 310
  2. cf. Paul Fischer: Shizi: China's First Syncretist. New York: Columbia University Press 2012

literature

  • 汉英 中国 哲学 辞典. 开封 2002
  • Lutz Geldsetzer / Han-ding Hong: Chinese-German lexicon of the classics and schools of Chinese philosophy. Translated from Ci Hai . Aalen 1991 (Article: "Zá Jiā", p. 148)