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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450761003321

Autore

Csikszentmihalyi Mark

Titolo

Material Virtue : Ethics and the Body in Early China / / Mark Csikszentmihalyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004

ISBN

1-280-86743-4

9786610867431

1-4294-5256-0

90-474-0677-X

1-4337-0665-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

Sinica Leidensia ; ; 66

Disciplina

170.931

Soggetti

Confucianism

Ethics - China

Human body - Moral and ethical aspects

Virtue

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE. BACKGROUND OF THE RU VIRTUE DISCOURSE; CHAPTER TWO. MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WUXING; CHAPTER THREE. MORAL PSYCHOLOGYAND HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY IN THE MENGZI; CHAPTER FOUR. THE SAGE'S TRANSCENDENT BODY; CHAPTER FIVE. MATERIAL VIRTUE IN THE EARLY EMPIRE; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX ONE. The reconstructed Zisi; APPENDIX TWO. The Guodian Wuxing; APPENDIX THREE. The Mawangdui Wuxing and commentary; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.