Powerful Arguments
豆瓣
Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China
Martin Hofmann (EDT) / Joachim Kurtz (EDT) …
简介
The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of inference, and the criteria by which some arguments were judged to be more persuasive than others, the contributions recreate distinct cultures of reasoning. Together, they lay the foundations for a history of argumentative practice in one of the richest scholarly traditions outside of Europe and add a chapter to the as yet elusive global history of rationality.
目录
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Toward a History of Argumentative Practice in Late Imperial China
Martin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz, and Ari Daniel Levine
Part 1: Comparison, Collation, Validation
1Historical and Political Arguments: Debates on the Veritable Records in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)
Peter Ditmanson
2A Performance of Transparency: Discourses of Veracity and Practices of Verification in Li Tao’s Long Draft
Ari Daniel Levine
3Learning with Metal and Stone: On the Discursive Formation of Song Epigraphy
Jeffrey Moser
Part 2: Visualization, Demonstration, Calculation
4The Persuasive Power of Tu: A Case Study on Commentaries to the Book of Documents
Martin Hofmann
5Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: “Proving” Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms Work
Andrea Bréard
6Keeping Your Ear to the Cosmos: Coherence as the Standard of Good Music in the Northern Song
Ya Zuo
7The Textual Nature of Nature: Astronomical Debates in Eighteenth-Century China
Ori Sela
Part 3: Verification, Evaluation, Authentication
8Identity Verification as a Standard of Validity in Late Imperial Civil Service Examinations
John Williams
9Standards of Validity and Essay Grading in Early Qing Civil Service Examinations
Li Yu虞莉
10Some Problems with Corpses: Standards of Validity in Qing Homicide Cases
Matthew H. Sommer
11Value and Validity: Seeing through Silver in Late Imperial China
Bruce Rusk
Part 4: Corroboration, Refutation, Presentation
12Philological Arguments as Religious Suasion: Liu Ning and His Study of Chinese Characters
Pingyi Chu
13A Moral Verdict of Reasonable Doubts: Ouyi Zhixu’s Argumentative Strategies in the Collection of Refutations against Vicious Doctrines
Manuel Sassmann
14Reasoning in Style: The Formation of “Logical Writing” in Late Qing China
Joachim Kurtz
Index