Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!powergrid.electriciti.com!news From: wsnyder@powergrid.electriciti.com (Bill Snyder) Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.taoism Subject: Re: Short History of Chinese Philosophy Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:51:57 GMT Organization: ElectriCiti Lines: 21 Message-ID: <30d5d230.376928@news.electriciti.com> References: <4anpu5$jaq@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip09.cs2.electriciti.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 laska@netcom.com (Andrew Laska) wrote: >I have the book and I am reading it. > >My question is aimed at someone who knows more about Chinese >philosophical history than I. > It is a reasonably good book, though somewhat dated. I used to use it in a Chinese philosophy course which I taught along with Wing Tsit Chan's book of readings (Readings in Chinese Philosophy?). At that time it was either Fung or Creel, and I preferred Fung. Some of his biases are fairly evident, but they clutter up his critical comments not his accounts of doctrine. I would recommend supplementing it with some readings in the texts: Analects, Doctrine of the Mean, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, e.g. Chan's book mentioned above (and, I think, still in print - Princeton University Press paperback) is an excellent collection of materials. -- Bill Snyder (wsnyder@powergrid.electriciti.com) "The way up and the way down are the same." - Heraclitus