A Tripartite Self: Mind, Body, and Spirit in Early China

by Lisa Raphals

Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation traditions. Philosophical debates about the relationship between mind and body are often described in terms of mind-body dualism and its opposite, monism or some kind of "holism." Monist or holist views agree on the unity of mind and body, whereas mind-body dualists take body and mind as essentially different. Debates about mind-body...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197630871
• ISBN13: 9780197630877
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"