TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allan,Sarah
TI  - The way of water and sprouts of virtue
T2  - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SN  - 0585054851
AV  - B126 .A45 1997eb
U1  - 181/.11 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Meng, Ke.
KW  - Mengzi
KW  - swd
KW  - Daodejing
KW  - Philosophy, Chinese
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Philosophie chinoise
KW  - Philosophie de la nature
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Naturphilosophie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wasser
KW  - Motiv
KW  - Weg
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Chinese filosofie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Water
KW  - Deugden
KW  - Chine
KW  - ram
KW  - China
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and indexes; Water -- The Way and other ideas -- Sprouts of virtue -- The philosophers
N2  - "This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by studying the principles which govern nature. Accordingly, the natural world rather than a religious tradition provided the root metaphors of early Chinese thought. Sarah Allan examines the concrete imagery, most importantly water and plant life, which served as a model for the most fundamental concepts in Chinese philosophy including such ideas as dao, the "way," de, "virtue" or "potency," xin, the "mind/heart," xing, "nature," and qi, "vital energy." Water, with its extraordinarily rich capacity for generating imagery, provided the primary model for conceptualizing general cosmic principles while plants provided a model for the continuous sequence of generation, growth, reproduction, and death and were the basis for the Chinese understanding of the nature of man in both religion and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET
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