Seminal work in Chinese intellectual history; 16th c Ming China philosopher. Instrumental in spreading Neo-Confucian way to the modern world. Lo Ch’in-shun (1465-1547) was virtually the first Chinese thinker to make strong steps towards a modern understanding of the world, and Prof. Bloom places Lo’s achievements in terms that Western philosophers can understand without violating the original, Chinese sense of his thought. pp.ix, 226