Critique of Superstition
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The Chapter on Encountering a Tiger
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
In the households of the proponents of portents and retributions, it is said that when a tiger eats a person, it is caused by the malfeasance of the m…
Chapter on Changing Emptiness
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
This chapter refutes the false claim that Heaven responds to human good and evil and metes out reward and punishment. Wang Chong takes as his target t…
On the Emptiness of Blessings
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
The common view holds that those who do good receive blessings and those who do evil invite disaster. That blessings and disasters correspond in this …
On the Meaning of Sacrifice
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
This chapter supplements and elaborates on the "Siyi pian," further discussing the role and significance of sacrifices.