224 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the Baron de Montesquieu. Unlike surveys which provide only cursory overviews of Enlightenment views of China, or individual studies of each thinker... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Jesuits: a swinging door
3. Pierre Bayle: a tolerant, atheistic monarchy
4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: natural theology and universal justice
5. Montesquieu and Chinese despotism
6. Conclusion: The early European Enlightenment in Chinese political thought
Biography
Simon Kow is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
