
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
Author(s): The Arthur Waley Estate (Author), Arthur Waley (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 4 April 2005
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 041536180X
- ISBN-13: 9780415361804
Book Description
First published in 1939.
This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu’s appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu, finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very contemporary connection.
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“Fascinating both for its own sake and for its parallels with our own ways of thought in the West” – E M Forster
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