The idea that the early Chinese held the «strong» holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and qualitative textual evidence.
«For years humanists have been heralding the end of the great age of Theory. – Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences – and particular research on human cognition – which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable.
This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei–literally «no doing,» but better rendered as «effortless action»–in early Chinese thought. This concept of effortlessness, he contends, serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucianthinkers.
What stands out about this textbook is the way each concept is introduced with a question.
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Category – SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions.
Calls for a «consilient» or «vertically integrated» approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility.
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