"Of what use are the Odes?" Cognitive science, virtue ethics, and early Confucian ethics

Philosophy East and West

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-109

  Slingerland, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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