Emperor Whisperers
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Emperor Whisperers

A Comparative History of Ancient Chinese and Western Philosophy

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eBook - ePub

Emperor Whisperers

A Comparative History of Ancient Chinese and Western Philosophy

About this book

Emperor Whisperers charts a comparative history of the two largest strains of ancient philosophy, from the first millennium BC to around AD 500. The book examines how

philosophy arose from atheism in both China and Greece but entered a cul de sac when atheism spread from the elites to the middle classes. China's philosophy evolved to oppose law with morals, which created a mandarin class of "emperor whisperers, " while Western philosophy was complicated by competing political systems that were only harmonized by the triumph of the Roman Empire. As antiquity came to an end, imported new religions – Buddhism and Christianity – reintroduced faith into elite thought and kickstarted the Middle Ages.

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Publisher
Academica Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781680537321
eBook ISBN
9781680538243
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Intro: Point Deer Make Horse and the Modern West
  7. 2. The Hundred Schools and the Pre-Socratics
  8. 3. Confucius and the Sophists
  9. 4. The Confucian schools and Socrates
  10. 5. Lao Zi and Plato
  11. 6. Mencius and Aristotle
  12. 7. Dong Zhongshu and the Cynics
  13. 8. The Three Kingdoms and Seneca
  14. 9. Xuan Xue and the Christians
  15. 10. Buddha and the City of God
  16. Index

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