In the Mind, in the Body, in the World

This volume marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from the fifth century BCE to the second century CE. It brings scholars working in the two ancient traditions together to explore ways in which cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary investigation might be deployed to advance our understanding of the emotions in these ancient societies, and ultimately, to confront and challenge certain long-standing modern approaches to emotions.

Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. His many previous publications include Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature and, as editor, A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity and Emotions though Time, from Antiquity to Byzantium.
Curie Virág is Associate Professor in World Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a specialist in the philosophy and intellectual history of early and middle period China. Her research focuses on ethics, epistemology, and moral psychology, especially in relation to the emotions. She is the author ofThe Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy(Oxford 2017) and has published on such topics as pleasure, contempt, moral agency, practical wisdom, learning and self-cultivation, and cross-cultural philosophical method.

- Douglas Cairns and Curie Virág
- Introduction: Emotions as a Topic of Cross- cultural and Historical Investigation
- 1. Chris Fraser
- Deviations from the Way, Failures of Virtue: Emotions in Early Daoist Thought
- 2. P. N. Singer
- Graeco-Roman Therapy of the Emotions: Medical Techniques, Biological Understandings
- 3. Elisabeth Hsu
- The Five Emotions and their Treatment in Chinese Medicine (Suwen 5.3)
- 4. George Kazantzidis
- Emotions across the Hippocratic Corpus and the Suwen
- 5. Ellie Hua Wang
- Reverence and Reverential Respect in Early Confucian Thought
- 6. Pia Campeggiani
- Affective Construals: What Aristotle's Moral Psychology Tells Us about Emotion
- 7. Eric Hutton
- Debating the Proper Wei to Rule the State in Early Chinese and Greek Political Philosophy: On the Emotional Influence of Rulers
- 8. Dimos Spatharas
- The Expression and Social Uses of Contempt in Ancient Greece
- 9. Franklin Perkins
- Judgment, Perception, and Attention in the Cultivation of Emotions: Mengzi and the Stoics
- 10. Margaret Graver
- The Stillness of The Sage's Heart: Senecan Apatheia and the Involuntary Feelings
- 11. G. E. R. Lloyd
- Afterword: The Emotions in the Ancient Greco-Roman and Chinese Worlds