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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perkins, Franklin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Philosophie
Das Böse
Philosophy, Chinese.
Good and evil.
PHILOSOPHY > Good & Evil.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Philosophie chinoise > Jusqu'à 221 av. J.-C.
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy, Chinese > To 221 B.C.
China
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Dàodejing
  • 4. Reproaching Heaven and Serving Heaven in the Mengzï
  • 5. Beyond the Human in the Zhuangzï
  • 6. Xúnzï and the Fragility of the Human
  • Conclusion.

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