Order in early Chinese excavated texts: natural, supernatural, and legal approaches

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Wang, Zhongjiang 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Tadd, Misha 1980- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Chinese
Veröffentlicht: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan 2016
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:241 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781137546968

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