Material virtue : : ethics and the body in early China / / by Mark Csikszentmihalyi.
This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought. Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based on both tra...
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| Superior document: | Sinica Leidensia, v. 66 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 66. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Other title: | Wuxing (Guodian version). English & Chinese. Wuxing (Mawangdui version). English & Chinese. |
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| Summary: | This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought. Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based on both transmitted (e.g., the Mengzi or Mencius) and recently excavated (e.g., the Wuxing or Five Kinds of Action) texts, Material Virtue describes how the argument addresses challenges to early Chinese religious ethics in part by relying on emerging notions such as the balance of qi (pneumas) also found in natural philosophy. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-389) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1280867434 9786610867431 1429452560 904740677X 1433706652 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9563 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Mark Csikszentmihalyi. |