Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane : the Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy.

That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between h...

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Tác giả chính: Perkins, Franklin
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press 2014.
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Loạt:World philosophies.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gh89k
Mục lục:
  • Introduction: Philosophy in a Cross-Cultural Contex
  • 1. Formations of the Problem of Evil
  • 2. The Efficacy of Human Action and the Mohist Opposition to Fate
  • 3. Efficacy and Following Nature in the Dàodéjing
  • 4. Reproaching Heaven and Serving Heaven in the Mèngzï
  • 5. Beyond the Human in the Zhuangzï
  • 6. Xúnzï and the Fragility of the Human
  • Conclusion.