50 research outputs found
Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.)
No full textBetter known in his own times than later, Huan T’an (43 BCE–25 CE) was a scholar-official, independent in his thought and unafraid to criticize orthodox currents of his time. A practitioner of the Old Text exegesis of the Classics, he maintained a position on the court during a turbulent time of political crises, uprisings, and civil war, spanning the reigns of four emperors. His principal work, Hsin-lun, differs from other books on political criticism in that it does not deal primarily with history but takes many examples from contemporary social and political life. While belonging to the Old Text group of court officials and scholars, Huan T’an differed radically from them in his stress on direct knowledge, in his range of practical experience, and in his outspoken criticism of popular opinions. He was not a systematic philosopher, but his ideas were influential in the return to a more worldly conception of Confucianism. To translate Huan T’an’s writings, one must reconstruct the texts. Timoteus Pokora uses two nineteenth-century fragments as a basis around which to orient quotations from Hsin-lun from sixty-four other sources, primarily encyclopedias and commentaries. Pokora provides notes to give context to these short references and to account for discrepancies between quotations and originals, and he includes a large index to add coherence and points of entry
Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.)
No full textBetter known in his own times than later, Huan T’an (43 BCE–25 CE) was a scholar-official, independent in his thought and unafraid to criticize orthodox currents of his time. A practitioner of the Old Text exegesis of the Classics, he maintained a position on the court during a turbulent time of political crises, uprisings, and civil war, spanning the reigns of four emperors. His principal work, Hsin-lun, differs from other books on political criticism in that it does not deal primarily with history but takes many examples from contemporary social and political life. While belonging to the Old Text group of court officials and scholars, Huan T’an differed radically from them in his stress on direct knowledge, in his range of practical experience, and in his outspoken criticism of popular opinions. He was not a systematic philosopher, but his ideas were influential in the return to a more worldly conception of Confucianism. To translate Huan T’an’s writings, one must reconstruct the texts. Timoteus Pokora uses two nineteenth-century fragments as a basis around which to orient quotations from Hsin-lun from sixty-four other sources, primarily encyclopedias and commentaries. Pokora provides notes to give context to these short references and to account for discrepancies between quotations and originals, and he includes a large index to add coherence and points of entry
Chinese ideas of life and death: faith, myth, and reason in the han period (202 B.C.–A.D. 220). By Michael Loewe. pp. x, 226. London, etc., George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1982. £12.50.
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The art of rulership: a study in ancient Chinese political thought. By Roger T. Ames. pp. xvii, 277. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1983. US.$25.00.
No full textThe bureaucracy of han times. By Hans Bielenstein. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. x, 262. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1980. £16.50.
No full textPhilosophy and argumentation in third-century China: the essays of Hsi K'ang. Translated by Robert G. Henricks. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations), pp. x, 214. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1983. £25.80.
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Construction of free curves by adding lines to a given curve
No full textIn the present note we construct new families of free plane curves starting
from a curve and adding high order inflectional tangent lines of , lines
joining the singularities of the curve , or lines in the tangent cone of
some singularities of . These lines have in common that the intersection
consists of a small number of points. We introduce the notion of a
supersolvable plane curve and conjecture that such curves are always free, as
in the known case of line arrangements. Some evidence for this conjecture is
given as well, both in terms of a general result in the case of quasi
homogeneous singularities and in terms of specific examples. We construct a new
example of maximizing curve in degree 8 and the first and unique known example
of maximizing curve in degree 9. In the final section, we use a stronger
version of a result due to Schenck, Terao and Yoshinaga to construct families
of free conic-line arrangements by adding lines to the conic-line arrangements
of maximal Tjurina number recently classified by V. Beorchia and R. M.
Mir\'o-Roig in arXiv:2303.04665.Comment: Version 4, this is the final version with all the referee's comments.
Accepted for publication in Results in Mathematic
