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ORDER IN EARLY CHINESE EXCAVATED TEXTS IBD

AIAA
12 / 2015
9781137546968
Inglés

Sinopsis

Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese thought. In this book, Wang Zhongjiang closely examines these texts and, by parsing the complex divergence between ancient and modern Chinese records, reveals early Chinese philosophy to be much richer and more complex than we ever imagined. As numerous and varied cosmologies sprang up in this cradle of civilization, beliefs in the predictable movements of nature merged with faith in gods and their divine punishments. Slowly, powerful spirits and gods were stripped of their potency as natureâÇÖs constant order awakened people to the possibility of universal laws, and those laws finally gave birth toáan ideally conceived community, objectively managed and rationally ordered.