1st Edition

Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very contemporary connection.

    Part 1 Chuang Tzu; Chapter 1 The Realm of Nothing Whatever; Chapter 2 Politics; Part 2 Mencius; Chapter 3 Mencius and the Kings; Chapter 4 The Rival Schools; Part 3 The Realists; Chapter 5 Epilogue;

    Biography

    Arthur Waley

    "Fascinating both for its own sake and for its parallels with our own ways of thought in the West" - E M Forster