The vulnerability of integrity in early Confucian thought / Michael Ing.
In this work, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful things are vulnerable to powers beyond our control; and more specifically, how relationships with meaningful others might compel tragic actions. Vulnerability is often understood as a...
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Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Summary: | In this work, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful things are vulnerable to powers beyond our control; and more specifically, how relationships with meaningful others might compel tragic actions. Vulnerability is often understood as an undesirable state; and as such, invulnerability is preferred over vulnerability. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190679149 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190679118.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 20, 2017) |