The Quest for Ecstatic Morality in Early China
ISBN: 9780199941742 | 0199941742
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/15/2013
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There is an intense love of freedom evident in the "Xing zi mingchu," a text last seen when it was buried in a Chinese tomb in 300 B.C.E. It tells us that both joy and sadness are the ecstatic zenith of what the text terms "qing." Combining emotions intoqingallows them to serve as a stepping stone to the Dao, the transcendent source of morality for the world. There is a process one must follow to prepareqing: it must be beautified by learning from the classics written by ancient sages. What is absent from the process is any indication that the ... MORE
Kenneth Holloway is Associate Professor of History and Levenson Professor of Asian Studies at Florida Atlantic University.
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