Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts
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Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts

Natural, Supernatural, and Legal Approaches

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eBook - PDF

Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts

Natural, Supernatural, and Legal Approaches

About this book

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 those laws finally gave birth toan ideally conceived community, objectively managed and rationally ordered.

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Yes, you can access Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts by Zhongjiang Wang, Misha Tadd in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Languages. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781137546968
eBook ISBN
9781137540843
Topic
History
Subtopic
Languages
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Prolegomenon
  7. 1 The Cosmology of The Great One Birthed Water
  8. 2 Cosmology, Nature, and the Sage in All Things Are Forms in Flux
  9. 3 The Diversity of Eastern Zhou Views on Deities and The Divine Insight of Spirits and Gods
  10. 4 Natural Order and Divine Will in The Three Virtues
  11. 5 Huang-Lao’s Conception of Universal Law: Why Govern with the Way and the Law?
  12. Appendix 1: The Great One Birthed Water
  13. Appendix 2: All Things Forms in Flux
  14. Appendix 3: The Divine Insight of Spirits and Gods
  15. Appendix 4: The Three Virtues
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index