Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
By The Arthur Waley Estate & Arthur Waley
- Release Date: 2012-11-12
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
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.