عنوان

Order in early Chinese excavated texts

شابک

9781137540843electronic bk

عنوان اصلي

Order in early Chinese excavated texts

نام نخستين پديدآور

Zhongjiang Wang ; translated by Misha Tad

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Palgrave Macmillan

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource )241 pages(

متن يادداشت

Prolegomenon -- The cosmology of The great one birthed water -- Cosmology, nature, and the sage in All things are forms in flux -- The diversity of Eastern Zhou views on deities and The divine influence of spirits and gods -- Natural order and divine will in The three virtues -- Huang-Lao's conception of universal law: Why govern with the way and law? -- Appendix 1: The great one birthed water -- Appendix 2: All things are forms in flux -- Appendix 3: The divine insight of spirit and gods -- Appendix 4: The three virtues "Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese thought. In this book, Wang Zhongjiang closely examines these texts, and by parsing the complex divergence between ancient and modern Chinese records reveals early Chinese philosophy to be much richer and more complex than we ever imagined. As numerous and varied cosmologies sprang up in this cradle of civilization, beliefs in the predictable movements of nature merged with faith in gods and their divine punishments. Slowly, powerful spirits and gods were stripped of their potency as nature's constant order awakened people to the possibility of universal laws, and from those laws was finally born an ideally conceived community, objectively managed, and rationally ordered"--Provided by publisher

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

عنوان قراردادي

Yu zhou, zhiu,in yang.English

عنوان گونه گون

natural, supernatural, and legal approaches

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Philosophy, Chinese

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Manuscripts, Chinese, China

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Wang, Zhongjiang,author

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Ohio Library and Information Network

نوع ماده

English Book