Philosophia sinica tribus tractatibus

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Full title: Philosophia sinica tribus tractatibus, primo cognitionem primi Entis, secundo ceremonias erga defunctos, tertio ethicam, juxta Sinarum mentem complectens
Year: 1711
Translator(s)/Commentators(s): Noël, François
Book type: Print
Language(s): Latin
Chinese text: None
Place of publication: Prague
Publisher's imprint: Typis Universit: Carolo-Fernandeae, in Collegio Soc. Jesu ad S. Clementem, per Joachimum Joannem Kamenicky Factorem
Later Editions/Reprints: From Confucius to Zhu Xi
Classical source(s): Analects (论语); Elementary Learning (小学); Mencius (孟子); Classic of Filial Piety (孝经); Erya (尔雅); Rites of Zhou (周礼); Book of Changes (易经); Classic of Poetry (诗经); Book of Documents (书经); Book of Rites (礼记); Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)
Manuscript source(s): Doctrinae Sinicae brevis indagatio
Summary: This work, divided into three treatises, is properly not a translation of a classic but an anthology of Chinese classical passages and their neo-Confucian commentaries ordered to explain Chinese metaphysics (Treatise 1), ritual (Treatise 2) and ethics (Treatise 3) as compatible with Christian doctrine.
URLs: BnF Gallica; ARSI
Secondary Sources: von Collani 2015. "François Noël and his Treatise on God in China". In History of the Catholic Church in China : from its beginning to the Scheut Fathers and 20th century. Unveiling some less known sources, sounds and pictures, Ferdinand Verbiest Instituut KU Leuven, pp. 23-64; Thierry Meynard, "François Noël’s Contribution to the Western Understanding of Chinese Thought: Taiji sive natura in the Philosophia sinica (1711)". Dao (2018) 17:219–230
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