<<The>> way of water and sprouts of virtue
Inhalt: Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Sources ; Root Metaphors and Conceptual Schemes ; Early Chinese Religion ; Water and Plant Life; Procedure -- Ch. 2. Water: Shui, "Water"; Water with a Source Flows Continuously; Water Flows along a Course; Water Flow...
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Albany, NY
State University of New York Press
1997
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| Schriftenreihe: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Inhalt: Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Sources ; Root Metaphors and Conceptual Schemes ; Early Chinese Religion ; Water and Plant Life; Procedure -- Ch. 2. Water: Shui, "Water"; Water with a Source Flows Continuously; Water Flows along a Course; Water Flows Downward; Water Carries Detritus ; Soft and Weak, Yielding, and Uncontending; Water Takes Any Shape; Still Water Becomes Level; Still Water Clears Itself of Sediment and; Becomes Reflective; Water is Difficult to See; Mountains and Rivers; Water and Fire -- Ch. 3. The Way and Other Ideas: The "Way" (Dao) ; The Analects and the Mencius; The Laozi and the Zhuangzi; "Doing Nothing" (Wuwei); The Mind/Heart (Xin); "Breath," "Vapor," "Vital Energy" (Qi) -- Ch. 4. Sprouts of Virtue: The Myriad Living Things (Wan Wu); Virtue or Inner Power (De); Nature (Xing); The "Shoots" (Cai) (Original Material of ; Natural Endowment); The Sprouts (Duan) of The Mind/Heart; Humaneness (Ren); That which Is So of Itself (Ziran); The Artificial and the Natural (Wei and; Xing) -- Ch. 5. The Philosophers: The Analects ; The Mencius; The Laozi Daodejing; The Zhuangzi ; Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chinese Texts -- Index of Translations from Chinese Texts -- Index of Chinese Terms -- Subject Index |
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| Beschreibung: | Zusammenfassung d. Verlages: This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by studying the principles which govern nature. Accordingly, the natural world rather than a religious tradition provided the root metaphors of early Chinese thought. Sarah Allan examines the concrete imagery, most importantly water and plant life, which served as a model for the most fundamental concepts in Chinese philosophy including such ideas as dao, the "way," de, "virtue" or "potency," xin, the "mind/heart," xing, "nature," and qi, "vital energy." Water, with its extraordinarily rich capacity for generating imagery, provided the primary model for conceptualizing general cosmic principles while plants provided a model for the continuous sequence of generation, growth, reproduction, and death and were the basis for the Chinese understanding of the nature of man in both religion and philosophy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 181 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0791433854 0791433862 |