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A Tripartite Self - Mind, Body, and Spirit in Early China (Hardcover)
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A Tripartite Self - Mind, Body, and Spirit in Early China (Hardcover)
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Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body
and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation traditions.
Philosophical debates about the relationship between mind and body
are often described in terms of mind-body dualism and its opposite,
monism or some kind of "holism." Monist or holist views agree on
the unity of mind and body, whereas mind-body dualists take body
and mind as essentially different. Debates about mind-body dualism
have become important in Chinese and comparative philosophy because
of claims that there was no mind-body dualism in early China, in
contrast to Western traditions. This book argues that there was an
important divergence in early China between two views of the self.
In one, mind and spirit are closely aligned, and are understood to
rule the body as a ruler rules a state. But in the other, the
person is tripartite, and mind and spirit are independent entities
that cannot be reduced to a material-non-material binary. In some
cases, body and spirit are even aligned in opposition to mind. A
Tripartite Self addresses both philosophical and technical
literatures (including evidence from Chinese excavated texts) to
broaden a type of inquiry that frequently is applied only to
philosophical texts. Lisa Raphals surveys this divergence and
argues for the importance of a tripartite model of the person or
self in early Chinese texts through the Han dynasty. The book will
shed light on not only important contemporary debates of mind-body
dualism within Chinese philosophy but also within East-West
comparative approaches to understanding the self.
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