A Complete Book Concerning Happiness And Benevolence
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A Complete Book Concerning Happiness And Benevolence
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Author : Liuhong Huang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
A Complete Book Concerning Happiness And Benevolence written by Liuhong Huang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Philosophy categories.
"Huang Liu-hung was one of some 1,500 local magistrates in seventeenth-century China, and he wrote this book as a manual for other magistrates ... In it readers will find insight into everyday life and legal processes during the early Ch'ing period, as well as into the mentality of the ruling elite and its attitude toward the common people ... Also provides a basis for comparing China's present with its past, particularly in matters concerning the pursuit of ideological conformity and political control"--From publisher description.
A Complete Book Concerning Happiness And Benevolence
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Author : Chu Djang
language : en
Publisher:
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Happiness And Benevolence
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Author : Robert Spaemann
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-03-16
Happiness And Benevolence written by Robert Spaemann and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-16 with Religion categories.
Christian philosopher Robert Spaemann takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principles of ethics. Writing in a clear style accessible to non-specialists, drawing both on ancient and modern philosophy, from Aristotle, Plato and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel, he discovers the intimate relationship between ethics and ontology - the science of being. This book is written for theologians as well as philosophers - indeed for anyone who is concerned with the meaning of a 'life well lived', with good and evil and the search for happiness.
The Ethics Of Suicide
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Author : Margaret Pabst Battin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-11
The Ethics Of Suicide written by Margaret Pabst Battin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-11 with Philosophy categories.
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.
Carnival In China
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Author : Daria Berg
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-04
Carnival In China written by Daria Berg and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with History categories.
As if under the satirical magnifying glass, the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, an anonymous traditional Chinese novel, portrays local society and provincial life in seventeenth-century China in comic and grotesque close-up. A dystopian satire, the novel provides fascinating insights into the popular culture and wild imagination of men and women in late imperial China. Using an array of sources—fiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers—Carnival in China develops a style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. Through their eyes, we gain access to their desires, dreams, fears and nightmares.
Inside The World Of The Eunuch
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Author : Melissa S. Dale
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Inside The World Of The Eunuch written by Melissa S. Dale and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with History categories.
The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live. This study tells the story of how a complicated and much-maligned group of people struggled to insert a degree of agency into their lives. Rulers of the Qing dynasty were determined to ensure the eunuchs’ subservience and to limit their influence by imposing a management style based upon strict rules, corporal punishment, and collective responsibility. Few eunuchs wielded significant political power or lived in a lavish style during the Qing dynasty. Emasculation and employment in the palace placed eunuchs at the center of the empire, yet also subjected them to servile status and marginalization by society. Seeking more control over their lives, eunuchs serving the Qing repeatedly tested the boundaries of subservience to the emperor and the imperial court. This portrait of eunuch society reveals that Qing palace eunuchs operated within two parallel realms, one revolving around the emperor and the court by day and another among the eunuchs themselves by night where they recreated the social bonds—through drinking, gambling, and opium smoking—denied them by their palace service. Far from being the ideal servants, eunuchs proved to be a constant source of anxiety and labor challenges for the Qing court. For a long time eunuchs have simply been cast as villains in Chinese history. Inside the World of the Eunuch goes beyond this misleadingly one-dimensional depiction to show how eunuchs actually lived during the Qing dynasty. “This book is a thorough and responsible account of eunuch life during the Qing dynasty, which takes us deep inside the Forbidden City and introduces the often underclass families who provided servants to the Qing monarchs.” —R. Kent Guy, University of Washington “This is a unique study of Chinese eunuchs, in which Melissa Dale proves that they were a necessary and vital presence in the palace of the last dynasty in China. She explores all aspects of their life to the end of their existence, while avoiding the temptation to sensationalize them.” —Keith McMahon, University of Kansas
Civil Justice In China
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Author : Philip C. C. Huang
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996
Civil Justice In China written by Philip C. C. Huang and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
To what extent do newly available case records bear out our conventional assumptions about the Qing legal system? Is it true, for example, that Qing courts rarely handled civil lawsuits--those concerned with disputes over land, debt, marriage, and inheritance--as official Qing representations led us to believe? Is it true that decent people did not use the courts? And is it true that magistrates generally relied more on moral predilections than on codified law in dealing with cases? Based in large part on records of 628 civil dispute cases from three counties from the 1760’s to the 1900’s, this book reexamines those widely accepted Qing representations in the light of actual practice. The Qing state would have had us believe that civil disputes were so "minor” or "trivial” that they were left largely to local residents themselves to resolve. However, case records show that such disputes actually made up a major part of the caseloads of local courts. The Qing state held that lawsuits were the result of actions of immoral men, but ethnographic information and case records reveal that when community/kin mediation failed, many common peasants resorted to the courts to assert and protect their legitimate claims. The Qing state would have had us believe that local magistrates, when they did deal with civil disputes, did so as mediators rather than judges. Actual records reveal that magistrates almost never engaged in mediation but generally adjudicated according to stipulations in the Qing code.
The Chinese State In Ming Society
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Author : Timothy Brook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-10-27
The Chinese State In Ming Society written by Timothy Brook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-27 with History categories.
This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines the relationship between the present day state and society in China.
Disgraceful Matters
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Author : Janet M. Theiss
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004
Disgraceful Matters written by Janet M. Theiss and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Annotation This is the first book-length study of the social, political and cultural significance of the cult of female chastity in eighteenth century Qing China.
Law And Local Society In Late Imperial China
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Author : Mark Anton Allee
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1994
Law And Local Society In Late Imperial China written by Mark Anton Allee and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Based on case files, this study explores the social significance of the traditional Chinese legal system, and investigates how people utilized the courts during the course of criminal and civil disputes. The author emphasizes the ways in which law shaped social and economic change and how in turn the legal code and court system were adapted to local realities.