The Dao Of Madness
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The Dao Of Madness
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Author : Alexus McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-28
The Dao Of Madness written by Alexus McLeod 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 2021-09-28 with Philosophy categories.
Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics. Particularly for traditions and theories focused on self-cultivation, such as Aristotelian virtue ethics and many systems of ethics in early Chinese philosophy, mental illness offers powerful challenges. Can the mentally ill person cultivate herself and achieve a level of virtue, character, or thriving similar to the mentally healthy? Does mental illness result from failures in self-cultivation, failure in social institutions or rulership, or other features of human activity? Can a life complicated by struggles with mental illness be a good one? The Dao of Madness investigates the role of mental illness, specifically "madness" (kuang), in discussions of self-cultivation and ideal personhood in early Chinese philosophical and medical thought, and the ways in which early Chinese thinkers probed difficult questions surrounding mental health. Alexus McLeod explores three central accounts: the early "traditional" views of those, including Confucians, taking madness to be the result of character flaw; the challenge from Zhuangists celebrating madness as a freedom from standard norms connected to knowledge; and the "medicalization" of madness within the naturalistic shift of Han Dynasty thought. Understanding views on madness in the ancient world helps reveal key features of Chinese thinkers' conceptions of personhood and agency, as well as their accounts of ideal activity. Further, it exposes the motivations behind the origins of the medical tradition, and of the key links between philosophy and medicine in early Chinese thought. The early Chinese medical tradition has crucial and understudied connections to early philosophy, connections which this volume works to uncover.
Disability And Impairment In Early China
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Author : Avital H. Rom
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-03-31
Disability And Impairment In Early China written by Avital H. Rom and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-31 with History categories.
This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history. Early Chinese understandings of disability are effectively revealed through investigations of a wide range of aspects, such as terminological, legal, political, and etiological. The volume explores how early Chinese disability was socially negotiated as a means for creating enabled and at times empowered identities. It shows how oppression and empowerment, when viewed through the prism of such negotiations of identity, were not mutually exclusive. Through such examinations, the volume demonstrates how an approach sensitive to both the separability and the interconnectedness of disability and impairment enables a more nuanced understanding of Chinese disability history specifically, and Chinese notions of embodiment more generally. Bringing together international academics to examine a plethora of topics relating to disability and bodily impairment in early Chinese history, with an eye on their socio-political implications, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese History, History of Medicine, and Disability Studies.
Basho And The Dao
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Author : Peipei Qiu
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2005-07-31
Basho And The Dao written by Peipei Qiu and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although haiku is well known throughout the world, few outside Japan are familiar with its precursor, haikai (comic linked verse). Fewer still are aware of the role played by the Chinese Daoist classics in turning haikai into a respected literary art form. Bashō and the Dao examines the haikai poets’ adaptation of Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi, in the seventeenth century and the eventual transformation of haikai from frivolous verse to high poetry. The author analyzes haikai’s encounter with the Zhuangzi through its intertextual relations with the works of Bashō and other major haikai poets, and also the nature and characteristics of haikai that sustained the Zhuangzi’s relevance to haikai poetic construction. She demonstrates how the haikai poets’ interest in this Daoist work was rooted in the intersection of deconstructing and reconstructing the classical Japanese poetic tradition. Well versed in both Chinese and Japanese scholarship, Qiu explores the significance of Daoist ideas in Bashō’s and others’ conceptions of haikai. Her method involves an extensive hermeneutic reading of haikai texts, an in-depth analysis of the connection between Chinese and Japanese poetic terminology, and a comparison of Daoist traits in both traditions. The result is a penetrating study of key ideas that have been instrumental in defining and rediscovering the poetic essence of haikai verse. Bashō and the Dao adds to an increasingly vibrant area of academic inquiry—the complex literary and cultural relations between Japan and China in the early modern era. Researchers and students of East Asian literature, philosophy, and cultural criticism will find this book a valuable contribution to cross-cultural literary studies and comparative aesthetics.
Transcendence And Non Naturalism In Early Chinese Thought
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Author : Alexus McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Transcendence And Non Naturalism In Early Chinese Thought written by Alexus McLeod and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Philosophy categories.
Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian, this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought, highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.
Emperor Chapter 89
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Author : Leduc
language : en
Publisher: LeDuc
Release Date : 2025-06-05
Emperor Chapter 89 written by Leduc and has been published by LeDuc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-05 with Family & Relationships categories.
EMPEROR CHAPTER 89 A few days later, the biggest insider of the Great Sword Sect, and also the greatest backer of the Great Sword Sect - Yang Shengping, arrived. Yang Shengping was one of the few ancestors of the Great Sword Sect, and also the oldest ancestor of the Great Sword Sect, and at the same time the only one who could speak up in the Mad Court. Like the Great Sword Sect's sect master Zhu Qi, although he was the sect master of a sect, in reality, a small and weak sect like the Great Sword Sect, in the Mad Court's Daoist lineage, there were at least eight hundred if not a thousand. Just think about it, under the Mad Court's Daoist lineage there were many other powerful sects, so what authority did a small and weak sect like the Great Sword Sect have?
Different Beasts
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Author : Sonya N. Özbey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Different Beasts written by Sonya N. Özbey 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 2024 with Philosophy categories.
Different Beasts explores conceptions of animality and humanity as they emerge in the writings of Spinoza and in the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi. The project thus brings together works from distant and different pasts to bear on debates regarding the human-animal binary in its many constructions. It also investigates what is at stake in the formation of responsible comparison--one that is contextually grounded and refined in detail--to understand how the complex machinery behind the human-animal binary operates in different philosophical systems.
Chronicles Of Primordial Wars
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Author : Ethan Cole
language : en
Publisher: Ethan Cole
Release Date : 2025-01-07
Chronicles Of Primordial Wars written by Ethan Cole and has been published by Ethan Cole this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-07 with Fiction categories.
Please rate and comment positively! Your encouragement is my motivation! Thank you all! ? Shao Xuan joins a friend in his expedition to a recently discovered archaeological cave. After he picks up an ordinary looking stone he is teleported to a different world and wakes up in the body of a small orphan child. The world he is in now is still in its stone age with primitive tools made of stone and the ways of the people are savage. Savage isn’t the only thing special about the people though, because they have superhuman strength, jump higher than trees and punch stones. In short, they are able to cultivate their bodies. Despite all this, it is a real struggle to survive because of the scarcity of food. Together with Caesar, his pet wolf, he tries to survive in this cruel world.
Emperor Chapter 99
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Author : Leduc
language : en
Publisher: LeDuc
Release Date : 2025-06-05
Emperor Chapter 99 written by Leduc and has been published by LeDuc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-05 with Family & Relationships categories.
EMPEROR CHAPTER 99 If someone knew that this place like the Milky Way was actually an eye, they would definitely be shocked. This eye was like a starry sky, one could imagine how huge the owner of this eye was. It was truly so huge that others could not imagine it. An extremely large eye. When you saw this eye that was even bigger than the sky, you would truly understand the meaning of the saying Close your eyes, the sky is dark, open your eyes, the sky is bright. In front of this giant eye, any living being would become small. So what if your body was big, could you be as big as a starry sky? Moreover, this starry sky was just an eye. When this eye opened, it not only opened its eyes, but also looked at Li Qiye. Standing in front of this eye, Li Qiye was so small that he could not be any smaller, just like we were looking at a speck of dust that could not be any smaller.
I Shall Seal The Heavens 501 1000 Chapter
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Author : Ethan Cole
language : en
Publisher: Ethan Cole
Release Date : 2024-12-26
I Shall Seal The Heavens 501 1000 Chapter written by Ethan Cole and has been published by Ethan Cole this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-26 with Fiction categories.
Please rate and comment positively! Your encouragement is my motivation! Thank you all! ? I Shall Seal the Heavens?is an interesting combination of a few different genres such as Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance and Martial Arts. It is definitely an exciting mixture that can provide a lot of amazing actions and events to the readers. However, keep in mind, the book is quite long, and stillin the ongoing phase of the development. It means new updates have to arrive in the near future, and they can change many events in the story. The main plot of I Shall Seal the Heavens?surrounds the actions of a great wizard who has the power to make real miracles. No one is stronger than this magician, and that's why he has an indisputable reputation in his world. He can do many things, he can be very good and support the intentions of others or he can be truly bad and evil. That can be quite dangerous to other inhabitants, however, they can change nothing because it all depends on the wizard's will. He is, in fact, not very interested in other people. It is mostly because they are too weak and not important for the individual like he is. But this wizard does have his own interests. He is focused on much bigger things and happenings, which can change the destiny of all people and the entire universe. This magician has some demonic intentions, in fact. He wants to seal the Heavens while eliminating everything he does not like. It seems like a G.o.d's job, but if he really succeeds to achieve that, he is indeed an extremely powerful wizard.?
The Tao Of Elvis
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Author : David H. Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-11-01
The Tao Of Elvis written by David H. Rosen and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
The Inner Man vs The Mythical King With a scholarÕs mind and an Elvis-fanÕs heart, eminent psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Dr David H. Rosen illuminates both the inner Elvis and the myth of Elvis. Forty-two chapters representing the forty-two years of ElvisÕs life contain perceptive and inspiring quotations from the worldÕs most perceptive thinkers, as well as from the people who knew Elvis best. In a most readable fashion, Rosen unites the varied voices into each chapterÕs theme, such as: ÒSpirit, Soul and Religion,Ó ÒTranscendence & Transformation,Ó ÒDarkness, Sorrow, and Sadness,Ó ÒAlone and Loneliness,Ó and ÒLove.Ó An inspirational, perceptive, personal and truly innovative exploration of Elvis, which includes essays by two New York Times Best-Selling Authors: Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life, contributes a foreword in which he asks pivotal questions about the parallel destinies of Elvis and America. Clarissa Pinkola EstŽs, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, has contributed a free-wheeling afterword passionately expressing how ElvisÕs Òbeautiful flame of lifeÓ rocked the post-war world, and rocks her still. The Tao of Elvis is fully illustrated with Chinese papercut-inspired artwork by Diane Katz, author and illustrator of On All My Holy Mountain: A Modern Fraktur and Apples Dipped in Honey: A Jewish ABC.