Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1997-06-12
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor196
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791433867

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Sarah Allan is Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Chinese Studies in honor of Richard M. Bressler at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China, also published by SUNY Press; The Heir and the Sage: Dynastic Legend in Early China; Chinese Bronzes: A Selection from European Collections (with Li Xueqin); and Oracle Bone Collections in Great Britain (with Li Xueqin and Qi Wenxin); and editor of Legend, Lore and Religion in China (with Alvin P. Cohen) and Dunhuang Manuscripts in British Collections (with others).

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction The SourcesRoot Metaphors and Conceptual SchemesEarly Chinese ReligionWater and Plant LifeProcedure Chapter 2. Water Shui "Water"Water with a Source Flows ContinuouslyWater Flows along a CourseWater Flows DownwardWater Carries DetritusSoft and Weak, Yielding, and UncontendingWater Takes Any ShapeStill Water Becomes LevelStill Water Clears Itself of Sediment and Becomes ReflectiveWater is Difficult to SeeMountains and RiversWater and Fire Chapter 3. The Way and Other Ideas The "Way" (Dao )The Analects and the MenciusThe Laozi and the Zhuangzi"Doing Nothing" (Wuwei )The Mind/Heart (Xin )"Breath," "Vapor," "Vital Energy'' (Qi ) Chapter 4. Sprouts of Virtue The Myriad Living Things (Wan Wu )Virtue or Inner Power (De )Nature (Xing )The "Shoots" (Cai, ) (Original Material or Natural Endowment)The Sprouts (Duan ) of The Mind/HeartHumaneness (Ren )That which Is So of Itself (Ziran )The Artificial and the Natural (Wei and Xing ) Chapter 5. The Philosophers The AnalectsThe MenciusThe Laozi DaodejingThe Zhuangzi Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chinese Texts Index of Translations from Chinese Texts Index of Chinese Terms Subject Index