Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane
Subtitle: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: May 2014
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780253011688
Description: That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world. Perkins provides rich new readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects on their significance for Western philosophical discourse. -- Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Note on Abbreviated Citations; label: Introduction
title: Philosophy in a Cross-Cultural Context; label: 1
title: Formations of the Problem of Evil; label: 2
title: The Efficacy of Human Action and the Mohist Opposition to Fate; label: 3
title: Efficacy and Following Nature in the Dàodéjīng; label: 4
title: Reproaching Heaven and Serving Heaven in the Mèngzĭ; label: 5
title: Beyond the Human in the Zhuāngĭ; label: 6
title: Xúnzĭ and the Fragility of the Human; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index