Guodian - The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy - Kenneth (Florida Atlantic University Holloway

Fourteen years ago, a corpus of bamboo-strip texts was found in a late-fourth-century-BCE tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China. The discovery of the \Guodian\ texts, together with other recently discovered Warring States manuscripts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese intellectual history. Kenneth Holloway argues that the Guodian corpus puts forth a political philosophy based on the harmonious interconnection of individuals engaged in moralself cultivation. This unique worldview,..