Three ways of thought in ancient China / Arthur Waley.
First published in 1939. This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu, finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a re...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chuang Tzu
- Part I. The Realm of Nothing Whatever
- Stories of Chuang Tzu and Hui Tzu
- Stories of Lao Tzu and Confucius
- The Ancients
- The Brigand and the Sage
- Death
- The Cicada and the Wren
- Yoga
- King Mu and the Wizard
- Yang-shêng
- The Taoist and Tao
- Dim Your Light
- Buried among the People
- Part II. Politics
- Contemporary Events
- The Uncarved Block
- The Golden Age
- Government
- Dealing with the World
- Mencius
- The Better Feelings
- Government by Goodness
- Mencius and the Kings
- The Kings of Wei
- The Duke of T'êng
- The Three Years Mourning
- Mencius and the king of Sung
- Mencius and the king of Ch'i
- The Yen Episode
- The Handling of Sages
- Great Men
- The Rival Schools
- Mo Tzu
- Mencius and the Agriculturalists
- Cl'ên Chung
- Mencius and the Disciples
- Methods of Argument
- The Realists
- Affinities of the Realists
- The Realist Conception of Law
- The People and the Law
- Smith and Wesson
- Agriculture and War
- Classes to be Eliminated
- The Past
- The Ruler
- Power
- The Art of the Courtier
- Epilogue. Realism in Action
- Appendix
- Appendix I. The Sources
- Appendix II. Hsün Tzu on Mencius
- Chuang Tzu on Shên Tao
- Appendix III. Rites for Defensive War
- Appendix IV. Biographies
- Finding List
- Index
- Textual Notes.