Mind Makes Laws for Body:The Excavated Documents and Eastern Zhou Confucianist Master-Slave Mode of Mind and Body
One of the opportunities brought by the discoveries of new ancient documents such as the silk manuscripts(帛书),the inscriptions of The Five Elements(《五行》)on bamboo slips collected by Shanghai Museum(上博简),the inscriptions of Human nature is endowed by the Heaven(《性自命出》)on bamboo slips unearthed in Guodian(郭店简),and the inscriptions of Heart is in the middle of body(《心是谓中》)on bamboo slips collected by Tsinghua University(清华简),for a new understanding of the Eastern Zhou Confucianist's(东周儒家)view about the relationship between mind and body,is for us to see a"master-slave theory or mode of mind and body"(身心主从论)which is different from the unity theory of mind and body(身心合一论)and the parallel theory of mind and body(身心平行论).The Eastern Zhou Confucianist mode,expressed with the analogies between the dominating and the dominated,the enslaving and the enslaved,and the emperor and his ministers,in the forms of the law-making by mind for body,and the dominance and specification by mind for body,was mainly limited to the specification of such sensible body parts as the ear,the eye,the mouth,the nose and the limbs,by the ethical mind like benevolence,righteousness and ritual,and the rational mind like planning.This mode had similar expressions and presentations in the Confucianist documents handed down from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and also in the works of other schools of thought.Compared with the ancient Greek mode of mind and body,there is also an implicit similarity between the two of them.
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