Title: On Chinese body thinking
First published: 1997
Description: This book uses Western philosophical tradition to make a case for a form of thinking properly associated with ancient China. The book's thesis is that Chinese thinking is concrete rather than formal and abstract, and this is gathered in a variety of ways under the symbol "body thinking". The root of the metaphor is that the human body has a kind of intelligence in its most basic functions. When hungry the body gets food and eats, when tired it sleeps, when amused it laughs.

In free people these things happen instinctively but not automatically.
Subjects: Body, Human (Philosophy), Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, East and West, Philosophy, Chinese, Philosophy, Comparative, Human body (philosophy), Thought and thinking, Cross-cultural studies, Mind and body
LC classification: B5231 .W846 1997