Emotions across Cultures
Ancient China and Greece
David Konstan, David Konstan
- 342 páginas
- English
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Emotions across Cultures
Ancient China and Greece
David Konstan, David Konstan
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It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a moral defect, it was later celebrated as a sign that one took responsibility for things. In ancient Greece, hope did not always focus on a positive outcome, and in this respect differed from what we call "hope." Daring not to do, or "undaring, " was itself an emotional value in early China. While Aristotle regarded the inability to feel anger as servile, the Roman Stoic Seneca rejected anger entirely. Hatred and revenge were encouraged at one moment in China and repressed at another. Ancient Greek responses to tragedy do not map directly onto modern emotional registers, and yet are similar to classical Chinese and Indian descriptions. There are differences in the very way emotions are conceived. This book will speak to anyone interested in the many ways that human beings feel.
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A Brief History of Daring
The person who speaks with understanding (xun noōi) must insist upon what is shared (xunōi) by all, as a city insists upon its laws and customs. – Heraclitus fr. 114 Diels-KranzThe institutions and policies of the former kings are the tools the ruler uses to share with (gong 共) the crowd. His orders are the tools he, a single person (du 獨), uses to rule others. 先王之政所以與眾共也, 己之命所以獨制人也. – Wang Fu, Qianfu lun(“Shuai zhi” 衰制 chap.).