Lisa Raphals

A Tripartite Self

Mind, Body, and Spirit in Early China

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Produktbeschreibung

A Tripartite Self explores relations between body and mind, spirit, or soul in early Chinese texts from the Warring States and early Han dynasty period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780197630877
• ISBN-10: 0197630871
• Artikelnr.: 66114757

Autorenporträt

Lisa Raphals is Director of the Classics Program and the Program in Comparative Ancient Civilizations at the University of California, Riverside. Her previous books include Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece; Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China; Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece; and, as coeditor with Tom Angier, Skill in Ancient Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Dedication
Notes on Conventions, Editions and Transcriptions
Introduction
Intersecting Perspectives
Mind-body and Spirit-Body Dualism
A Tripartite Self
Plan of the Book
1 Semantic Fields of Body, Mind, and Spirit
Bodies
Minds
Spirit(s)
2 Virtue, Body, and Mind in the Shijing
Bodies in the Shijing
Xin
Spirits
More on Embodied Virtue
Conclusion
3 Mind and Spirit Govern the Body
Body, Mind, and Spirits in the Analects
The Mozi
the Emergence of Internal Spirit in the Guanzi
Heart-Mind as Ruler in the Mencius
Xunzi and the Hegemony of the Heart-Mind
Rulers and Slaves in the Guodian texts
The Mind Is Called the Center (Xin shi wei zhong)
Heart-Mind and Spirit in the Huainanzi and Wenzi
Conclusion
4 Body, Mind and Spirit: A Tripartite View
Yang Zhu's Discovery of the Body
Mind and spirit in the Guanzi
The Zhuangzi
Spirit and Body in the Shiwen
The Huainanzi
Conclusion
5 Body, Mind and Spirit in the Guodian Manuscripts
Body, Emotion and Heart-mind in Humans and Animals
Heart-mind and Body in the Xingzi Mingchu
Heart-Mind and Body in the Wuxing
Conclusions
6 Body, Mind and Spirit in Early Chinese Medicine
Mind-Body Dualism and Medical Texts
Shén and Xin in the Huangdi Neijing
Conclusion
7 Conclusions
Inner and Outer Reconsidered
Personal Identity and Persistence
Embodied Cognition
8 Glossary
9 Appendices
Time Lines
Semantic Fields of Body, Mind, Soul, and Spirit
The Brain in the Huangdi Neijing
10 References
11 Index