Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China
By Mark Csikszentmihalyi (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought. Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based on both transmitted (e.g., the Mengzi or Mencius) … Continued
