TY - BOOK ID - 18137276 TI - Material virtue : ethics and the body in early China. PY - 2004 SN - 9004141960 9786610867431 1429452560 904740677X 1280867434 1433706652 9781429452564 9789004141964 9781433706653 9789047406778 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Body, Human KW - Confucianism. KW - Ethics KW - Human body KW - Virtue. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Wuxing. KW - China KW - Social life and customs KW - S12/0213 KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Ethics KW - Confucianism KW - Virtue KW - Ethics, Chinese KW - Religions KW - Conduct of life KW - Human acts KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18137276 AB - This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought. Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based on both transmitted (e.g., the Mengzi or Mencius) and recently excavated (e.g., the Wuxing or Five Kinds of Action) texts, Material Virtue describes how the argument addresses challenges to early Chinese religious ethics in part by relying on emerging notions such as the balance of qi (pneumas) also found in natural philosophy. ER -