Tripartite Self Mind, Body, and Spirit in Early China

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Raphals, Lisa (Distinguished Professor of Comparat Raphals, Raphals Lisa
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 03.06.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions
• EAN: 9780197630877
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763087-7
• Pages: 280
• Subjects: China, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Taoist, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy