A tripartite self, body, mind, and spirit in early China, Lisa Raphals
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A tripartite self, body, mind, and spirit in early China, Lisa Raphals
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A tripartite self
Medium
electronic resource
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bibliographydictionaries
Responsibility statement
Lisa Raphals
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
Sub title
body, mind, and spirit in early China
Summary
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. 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.--, Provided by publisher
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