Material virtue : ethics and the body in early China / by Mark Csikszentmihalyi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Csikszentmihalyi, Mark.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; v. 66.

Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--China.

Ethics.

Virtue.

Human body--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human body.

Confucianism.

China--Social life and customs--To 221 B.C.

China.

Wuxing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-389) and index.

Contains:

Wuxing (Guodian version). English & Chinese

Wuxing (Mawangdui version). English & Chinese

ISBN:

1-280-86743-4

9786610867431

1-4294-5256-0

90-474-0677-X

1-4337-0665-2

OCLC:

476024214

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047406778 DOI