Reflections on Things at Hand The Neo-Confucian Anthology

Name: Reflections on Things at Hand The Neo-Confucian Anthology
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ISBN: 9780231028196

ISBN-10: 0231028199

ISBN-13: 9780231028196

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Authors: Wing-tsit Chan, Chu Hsi, Lu Tsu-Ch'Ien

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Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future.Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic…

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List price: $140.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/22/1967
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 441
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.92" long x 0.14" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Translator's Note


Abbreviations


Introduction


Preface



Preface




On the Substance of the Way



The Essentials of Learning



The Investigation of Things and the Investigation of Principle to the Utmost



Preserving One's Mind and Nourishing One's Nature



Correcting Mistakes, Improving Oneself, Self-Discipline, and Returning to Propriety



The Way to Regulate the Family



On Serving or Not Serving in the Government, Advancing or Withdrawing, and Accepting or Declining Office



On the Principles of Governing the State and Bringing Peace to the World



Systems and Institutions



Methods of Handling Affairs



The Way to Teach



Correcting Mistakes and the Defects of the Human Mind



Sifting the Heterodoxical Doctrines



On the Dispositions of Sages and Worthies


Sources of Selections in the Chin-Ssu Lu


On the Chin-Ssu Lu and Its Commentaries


On Translating Certain Chinese Philosophical Terms


Bibliography: Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Works


Glossary


Index