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Hsün Tzu on the Mind: His Attempted Synthesis of Confucianism and Taoism
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Using contemporary Western philosophic ideas, this essay examines Hsün Tzu's view of the mind as both a director of action and a spectator of action. In analyzing the mind as director, Hsün Tzu argues against Mencius's idea that the mind simply extends one's natural tendencies. Hsün Tzu's presentation of the mind as spectator— an idea developed chiefly in his discussion of obsession—accepts Chuang Tzu's stress on the importance of detachment, but argues that such detachment need not necessitate withdrawal from normal action. Hsün Tzu's two views of the mind can be reconciled by examining the mind's relationship to desires and to moral judgments. That examination also leads to the conclusion that Hsün Tzu thinks moral judgments have only a conventional and not a universal basis.
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“He contrasts this with Mencius ' xin , which -though in charge -derives its moral direction from firstorder desires, and must marshal the support of other parts of the self, such as the qi (Yearley 1980).”
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“Lee Yearley has argued convincingly that the Xunzian xin , for instance, is a rather autocratic, disembodied ruler, with preferences completely distinct from the first-order desires of the body and the power of absolute fiat over it.”
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“Even some of the Chinese thinkers who in fact posit a rather sharp divide between the xin and the emotions still embrace a relatively ' holistic ' model of the perfected sage, who has reshaped his emotions and desires to accord with the normative order. 37”
From Body and Mind in Early China: An Integrated Humanities–Science Approach (2013) · cites this paper as Yearley 1980
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- See Tzu Watson/Hsü , pp. 23, 73, 74, 151.
- Tzu Wztson/Hsun , pp. 139-40; Harvard-Yenching Institute Sinological Index Series. Supplement no. 22: A Concordance to Hsün Tzu (cited hereafter as Harvard Index Text), 83/22/3, 4.
- Tzu Watson/Hsün , pp. 163–64; see also pp. 15–32 and 171; in Mencius, see IIA2, IIA6.
- See Tzu Watson/Hsün , pp. 139-40, 150–52, 157–63. The best translation of wei is Legge's“factitiousness, ” but it is both arcane and clumsy.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yearley, L. H.
- Corresponding author
- Yearley, Lee H.
- Venue
- The Journal of Asian Studies
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 1980-05
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 465-480
- ISSN
- 0021-9118 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0401
- OpenAlex
- W2029079529
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Asian Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Classical Philosophy and Thought
- Keywords
- Xunzi, mind, Confucianism, Daoism, Mencius, Zhuangzi, obsession, detachment, desire, moral judgment, conventionalism, universalism
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