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Title
Order in early Chinese excavated texts [electronic resource] : natural, supernatural, and legal approaches / Zhongjiang Wang ; translated by Misha Tadd.
Uniform Title
Yu zhou, zhi xu, xin yang. English
ISBN
9781137540843 (electronic book)
1137540842 (electronic book)
9781137546968
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the Chinese.
Description
1 online resource (241 pages).
Call Number
B126 .W362513 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
181/.11
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
