Franklin Perkins

Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane

The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Franklin Perkins is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light and Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9780253011688
• ISBN-10: 025301168X
• Artikelnr.: 37500396

Autorenporträt

Franklin Perkins

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Note on Abbreviated Citations Introduction: Philosophy in a Cross-Cultural Context 1. Formations of the Problem of Evil 2. The Efficacy of Human Action and the Mohist Opposition to Fate 3. Efficacy and Following Nature in the Dàodéj
ng 4. Reproaching Heaven and Serving Heaven in the Mèngz
5. Beyond the Human in the Zhüng
6. Xúnz
and the Fragility of the Human Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index