The emotions in early Chinese philosophy / Curie Virág.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Virág, Curie, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Philosophy, Chinese--To 221 B.C.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This work traces the genealogy of early Chinese conceptions of emotions, as part of a broader inquiry into evolving conceptions of self, cosmos and the political order. It seeks to explain what was at stake in early philosophical debates over emotions and why the mainstream conception of emotions became authoritative.

Contents:

Emotions and the integrated self in the Analects of Confucius

Reasons to care: redefining the human community in Mozi

Cosmic desire and human agency in the Daodejing

Human nature and the pattern of moral life in Mencius

The multiple valences of emotions in the Zhuangzi

The composite self and the fulfillment of human nature in Xunzi.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-066311-1

0-19-049883-8

0-19-049882-X