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Heart and Mind in Ancient China – Or: A Desirable Theory

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2011
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Gassmann, R. H. (2011). Heart and Mind in Ancient China – Or: A Desirable Theory. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 74, 237–273. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X11000048

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Thinkers in the Zhànguó period of Chinese history debated intensely whether men were by nature “good” or “bad”. This debate has for many years been an important focus of sinological interest, but usually these properties were not attributed to men, but rather to so-called “human nature” (xìng 性) – thus, in effect, mirroring well-known (and problematic) “European” positions and discussions. The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to redirect attention to the original Zhànguó positions and to explore the reasons for their variance by

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74

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2

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237

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273

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0041-977X

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Copyright: Cambridge University Press.

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Gassmann, R. H. (2011). Heart and Mind in Ancient China – Or: A Desirable Theory. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 74, 237–273. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X11000048

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