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The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Emotions of the Past
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In China, the debate over the moral status of emotions began around
the 4th century BCE, when early philosophers first began to invoke
psychological categories such as the mind (xin), human nature
(xing), and emotions (qing) to explain the sources of ethical
authority and the foundations of our knowledge about the world.
Although some thinkers during this period proposed that human
emotions and desires were temporary physiological disturbances in
the mind caused by the impact of things in the world, this was not
the account that would eventually gain currency. The consensus
among those thinkers who would come to be recognized as the
foundational figures of the Confucian and Daoist philosophical
traditions was that the emotions represented the underlying,
dispositional constitution of a person, and that they embodied the
patterned workings of the cosmos itself. This book sets out to
explain why the emotions were such a central preoccupation among
early thinkers, and what was at stake in the entire discussion,
situating the entire debate within developments in thinking about
the self, the cosmos, and the political order. It shows that the
mainstream account of emotions as patterned reality emerged as part
of a major conceptual shift towards the recognition of natural
reality as intelligible, orderly and coherent. And that the idea
that all human beings possessed a shared, underlying, dispositional
nature, was itself one of the consequences of this idea. The
mainstream account of emotions thus played a crucial role in
summoning the very idea of the human being as a universal category
- an idea that would be of particular interest during the
subsequent period of empire - and in establishing the cognitive and
practical agency of human beings.
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