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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255239403321

Autore

Wang Zhongjiang

Titolo

Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts [[electronic resource] ] : Natural, Supernatural, and Legal Approaches / / by Zhongjiang Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-54084-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (V, 241 p.)

Classificazione

FOR003000HIS008000LIT008010OCC027000PHI003000

Disciplina

181/.11

Soggetti

Asia—History

Translation and interpretation

Philosophy

Oriental literature

Languages

Language and languages

China—History

Asian History

Translation

History of Philosophy

Asian Literature

Asian Languages

History of China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Prolegomena1.The Cosmology of The Great One Births Water2. Cosmology, Nature, and the Sage in All Things Are Forms in Flux3. The Diversity of Eastern Zhou Views on Deities and The Divine Influence of Spirits and Gods4. Natural Order and Divine Will in The Three Virtues5. Huang-Lao's Universal Law: Why Govern with the Way and Law?Appendix 1: Transcription and Translation of The Great One Births WaterAppendix 2: Transcription and Translation of All Things are Forms in FluxAppendix 3:



Transcription and Translation of The Divine Insight of Spirit and GodsAppendix 4: Transcription and Translation of The Three VirtuesBibliographyIndex.

Sommario/riassunto

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 to an ideally conceived community, objectively managed and rationally ordered.