Perkins

DOING WHAT YOU REALLY WANT C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780197574911
• ISBN-10: 0197574912
• Artikelnr.: 66135036

Autorenporträt

Franklin Perkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and editor of the journal Philosophy East and West. He is the author of Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2014), Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007), and Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light (2004), and was co-editor of Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems (2015). His books have been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Perkins has spent more than eight years teaching and conducting research in Asia, and has previously been a professor at Nanyang Technological University and DePaul University, where he was also the director of Chinese Studies program.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why Confucianism?
Chapter One: Harmony with Nature
Chapter Two: What People Really Want
Chapter Three: Emotions and Enjoying Life
Chapter Four: Cultivating Feelings
Chapter Five: Learning
Chapter Six: Ritual, Music and Embodied Emotions
Chapter Seven: Temptations, Excuses, and Putting Ideas into Practice
Chapter Eight: Power, Politics and Action
Bibliography
Index