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A Tripartite Self explores relations between body and mind, spirit, or soul in early Chinese texts from the Warring States and early Han dynasty period.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Notes on Conventions, Editions and Transcriptions
- Introduction
- Intersecting Perspectives
- Mind-body and Spirit-Body Dualism
- A Tripartite Self
- Plan of the Book
- 1 Semantic Fields of Body, Mind, and Spirit
- Bodies
- Minds
- Spirit(s)
- 2 Virtue, Body, and Mind in the Shijing
- Bodies in the Shijing
- Xin
- Spirits
- More on Embodied Virtue
- Conclusion
- 3 Mind and Spirit Govern the Body
- Body, Mind, and Spirits in the Analects
- The Mozi
- the Emergence of Internal Spirit in the Guanzi
- Heart-Mind as Ruler in the Mencius
- Xunzi and the Hegemony of the Heart-Mind
- Rulers and Slaves in the Guodian texts
- The Mind Is Called the Center (Xin shi wei zhong)
- Heart-Mind and Spirit in the Huainanzi and Wenzi
- Conclusion
- 4 Body, Mind and Spirit: A Tripartite View
- Yang Zhu's Discovery of the Body
- Mind and spirit in the Guanzi
- The Zhuangzi
- Spirit and Body in the Shiwen
- The Huainanzi
- Conclusion
- 5 Body, Mind and Spirit in the Guodian Manuscripts
- Body, Emotion and Heart-mind in Humans and Animals
- Heart-mind and Body in the Xingzi Mingchu
- Heart-Mind and Body in the Wuxing
- Conclusions
- 6 Body, Mind and Spirit in Early Chinese Medicine
- Mind-Body Dualism and Medical Texts
- Shén and Xin in the Huangdi Neijing
- Conclusion
- 7 Conclusions
- Inner and Outer Reconsidered
- Personal Identity and Persistence
- Embodied Cognition
- 8 Glossary
- 9 Appendices
- Time Lines
- Semantic Fields of Body, Mind, Soul, and Spirit
- The Brain in the Huangdi Neijing
- 10 References
- 11 Index
About the author
Lisa Raphals is Director of the Classics Program and the Program in Comparative Ancient Civilizations at the University of California, Riverside. Her previous books include Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece; Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China; Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece; and, as coeditor with Tom Angier, Skill in Ancient Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome.
Summary
A Tripartite Self explores relations between body and mind, spirit, or soul in early Chinese texts from the Warring States and early Han dynasty period.
