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Introduction
The First Discourse
The Second Discourse
The Third Discourse
The Fourth Discourse
The Fifth Discourse
The Sixth Discourse
The Seventh Discourse
The Eighth Discourse
The Ninth Discourse
The Tenth Discourse
The Eleventh Discourse
Notes
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- A position held by Kant, who argued that
the person who did good out of principle
rather than character, was to be
preferred to one who did good out of
character.
- A Confucian who lived 313-238 BC and who
argued that men were essentially evil and
required the restraint of law.
- Another name for the study of the passage
of chi through the body, and its effects
on the organs of the body and the mind,
which is the focus of acupuncture and
other studies.
- The principle organs studied in Chinese
medicine. The other two are the
pericardium and triple warmer, whose
identity is more mysterious. Some
authorities identify these with the
sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous
systems.
- The yin organs are the hollow organs on
the body such as the intestines and the
stomach.
- Tsia Tung is quoting Chinese medicine.
Accounts vary on the identity of the
afflictive emotions, some authorities
recognise seven afflictive emotions.
- Yueh Fei was a twelfth century Chinese
general who advocated armed resistance to
the invasion of the Jin tribe. He was
executed by the prime minister Qin Guei
who desired peace.
- A phrase used in Taoism to refer to the
trained body, which is soft and supple
without, but tough and resistant within.
- A point about three inches below the
navel.
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