The Dao of Madness

The Dao of Madness PDF Author: Alexus McLeod
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197505910
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Book Description
"Chapter One lays out the dominant views of self, agency, and moral responsibility in early Chinese Philosophy. The reason for this is that these views inform the ways early Chinese thinkers approach mental illness, as well as the role they see it playing in self-cultivation as a whole (whether they view it as problematic or beneficial, for example). In this chapter I offer a view of a number of dominant conceptions of mind, body, and agency in early Chinese thought, through a number of philosophical and medical texts"--