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Concepts of fate in ancient China.

Chen, Ning.

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Concepts of fate in ancient China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Concepts of fate in ancient China./
Author:	Chen, Ning.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1994,
Description:	261 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-07, Section: A, page: 2104.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-07A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9431509

Concepts of fate in ancient China.
Chen, Ning.

Concepts of fate in ancient China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1994 - 261 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-07, Section: A, page: 2104.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1994.

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the complexity of various concepts of fate held by the educated elite in ancient China. Since the Chinese spoke of fortune and misfortune in either mutable or immutable terms, this study divides their concepts of fate into five categories: amoral transcendental-immanent, moral transcendental-immanent, amoral transcendental, moral immanent, and amoral immanent.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a The purpose of this study is to shed light on the complexity of various concepts of fate held by the educated elite in ancient China. Since the Chinese spoke of fortune and misfortune in either mutable or immutable terms, this study divides their concepts of fate into five categories: amoral transcendental-immanent, moral transcendental-immanent, amoral transcendental, moral immanent, and amoral immanent.
520 $a Not excluding other factors, this essay places special emphasis on ideological factors responsible for the formation of these concepts and discusses the issue chronologically. Arguing against the view that the concept of blind fate (the amoral transcendental) already existed in Shang times or earlier, this study, based on the features of the Shang faith system (the amoral transcendental-immanent) and on the anthropological theories of religion, maintains that the Shang system could not generate that concept that was formulated in the late Western Chou to solve the problem of theodicy created by the Chou notion of the Mandate of Heaven (the moral transcendental-immanent). It is also stated that the moral immanent and the amoral immanent came into existence in the Eastern Chou as the result of ideological conflicts.
520 $a By focusing on the concepts of fate, this study opens a new aspect of what major schools of thought agreed and disagreed about. The following are some major findings. The concepts of fate held by major schools of thought were related to their views of the problem of theodicy. In Confucianism and Legalism the discrepancy in explaining man's fate appeared on different levels rather than on different occasions. In Taoism and early Confucianism, there was a strong emphasis on the unpredictability of man's fate which squared with their indifference towards the practice of divination and the Book of Changes which became a Confucian classic in later times.
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