The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy

Zusatztext ... this is in many ways an excellent and enlightening book. The level of argument is uniformly high: Virág both engages with previous scholarship! and is not afraid to move beyond it! giving her own (often radically) new interpretations of texts! and in the process rehabilitating at least one philosopher into the 'mainstream' Informationen zum Autor Curie Virág is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the Central European University in Budapest. Klappentext This book 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. Zusammenfassung This book 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.

Autorentext

Curie Virág is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the Central European University in Budapest.

Klappentext

This book 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.

Inhalt

• Table of Contents

• Preface

• Introduction

• 1. Emotions and the Integrated Self in the Analects of Confucius
• 2. Reasons to Care: Redefining the Human Community in Mozi
• 3. Cosmic Desire and Human Agency in the Daodejing
• 4. Human Nature and the Pattern of Moral Life in Mencius
• 5. The Multiple Valences of Emotions in the Zhuangzi
• 6. The Composite Self and the Fulfillment of Human Nature in Xunzi

• Conclusion

• Bibliography

• Index