III. Chinese Opinion Concerning the Human Soul, its Immortality, Rewards and Punishments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction
5. I. Background of the Discourse 1
6. II. Sources of Leibniz's Knowledge of China 7
7. III. The Chinese Intellectual Tradition 17
8. IV. Outline and Structure of the Discourse 34
9. V. The Manuscript and Its Translation 39
10. Footnotes to the Introduction 44
11. Discourse On The Natural Theology of the Chinese
12. I. Chinese Opinion Concerning God 53
13. II. Chinese Opinion Concerning the Productions of God or Prime Matter, and Spirits 92
14. III. Chinese Opinion Concerning the Human Soul, its Immortality, Rewards and Punishments 141
15. IV. Concerning the Characters which Fohi, Founder of the Chinese Empire, used in His Writings and Binary Arithmetic 157
16. Appendix: Variant Readings of the Text 167
17. Bibliography 170
18. Index 175