03132nam 22005535 450 991030061450332120200705082202.03-319-95291-910.1007/978-3-319-95291-8(CKB)4100000006374723(MiAaPQ)EBC5509320(DE-He213)978-3-319-95291-8(EXLCZ)99410000000637472320180903d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong[electronic resource] /by Alexus McLeod1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (261 pages)3-319-95290-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction: Wang Chong and Philosophy in Early China -- 2. Background, Writings, and Influence -- 3. Philosophical and Critical Method -- 4. Truth: Properties and Pluralism -- 5. Naturalism: Tian and Qi -- 6. Free Will, Allotment, and Inborn Characteristics -- 7. Conclusion: The Significance of Wang Chong’s Philosophical Thought.This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang’s philosophical thought as a unique and syncretic culmination of a number of ideas developed in earlier Han and Warring States philosophy. Wang’s philosophical methodology and his theories of truth, knowledge, and will and determinism offer solutions to a number of problems in the early Chinese tradition. His views also have much to offer contemporary philosophy, suggesting new ways of thinking about familiar problems. While Wang is best known as a critic and skeptic, Alexus McLeod argues that these aspects of his thought form only a part of a larger positive project, aimed at discerning truth in a variety of senses.Philosophy, AsianEthnology—AsiaChina—HistoryOriental literatureNon-Western Philosophyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E44060Asian Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411040History of Chinahttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/715010Asian Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000Philosophy, Asian.Ethnology—Asia.China—History.Oriental literature.Non-Western Philosophy.Asian Culture.History of China.Asian Literature.181.11McLeod Alexusauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut803684BOOK9910300614503321The Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong2099707UNINA