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Brindley, Erica Anne.

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Human agency and the development of self-cultivation ideologies in the Warring States (China).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Human agency and the development of self-cultivation ideologies in the Warring States (China)./
Author:	Brindley, Erica Anne.
Description:	354 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Willard Peterson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-11A.
Subject:	History, Ancient. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3033004
ISBN:	0493457321

Human agency and the development of self-cultivation ideologies in the Warring States (China).
Brindley, Erica Anne.

Human agency and the development of self-cultivation ideologies in the Warring States (China). - 354 p.

Adviser: Willard Peterson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2002.

This dissertation outlines a history of views concerning the relationship between individuals and idealized sources of authority in Warring States China (&sim;463–221 B.C.). It presents arguments for the development of two types of ideologies on the human agent: ideologies which support human obedience and conformity to a single, higher, external power; and ideologies centering on the individual agent as a powerful actor of its own. With time, this dissertation claims, the latter type of ideologies come to advocate the cultivation of certain universalized agencies inherent in all individuals. This important development is characterized by the emergence of a debate on <italic>hsing </italic>-human nature as an agency, or power of the individual.

ISBN: 0493457321Subjects--Topical Terms:

516261
History, Ancient.

Human agency and the development of self-cultivation ideologies in the Warring States (China).
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520 $a This dissertation outlines a history of views concerning the relationship between individuals and idealized sources of authority in Warring States China (&sim;463–221 B.C.). It presents arguments for the development of two types of ideologies on the human agent: ideologies which support human obedience and conformity to a single, higher, external power; and ideologies centering on the individual agent as a powerful actor of its own. With time, this dissertation claims, the latter type of ideologies come to advocate the cultivation of certain universalized agencies inherent in all individuals. This important development is characterized by the emergence of a debate on <italic>hsing </italic>-human nature as an agency, or power of the individual.
520 $a The emergence of ideologies that assume the universal power of innate human agency appears to be widespread. Later parts of this dissertation document varying approaches to the concept of innate human agency, attempting to provide the reader with a sense of how such a concept affected views on the scope of individual power in society. Also, in a general manner, this dissertation points to a likely connection between intellectual developments and the rise in social mobility, the transformations of the noble and <italic>shih</italic>-elite classes, and the growing centralization of power occurring at the time.
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