Franklin Perkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and editor of the journal Philosophy East and West. He is the author of Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2014), Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007), and Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light (2004), and was co-editor of Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems (2015). His books have been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Perkins has spent more than eight years teaching and conducting research in Asia, and has previously been a professor at Nanyang Technological University and DePaul University, where he was also the director of Chinese Studies program.

Scholars from disciplines such as (intercultural) philosophy and religious studies will have much to gain from this.

• Introduction: Why Confucianism? Chapter One: Harmony with NatureChapter Two: What People Really WantChapter Three: Emotions and Enjoying LifeChapter Four: Cultivating FeelingsChapter Five: LearningChapter Six: Ritual, Music and Embodied EmotionsChapter Seven: Temptations, Excuses, and Putting Ideas into PracticeChapter Eight: Power, Politics and Action BibliographyIndex

Franklin Perkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and editor of the journal Philosophy East and West. He is the author of Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2014), Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007), and Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light (2004), and was co-editor of Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems (2015). His books have been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Perkins has spent more than eight years teaching and conducting research in Asia, and has previously been a professor at Nanyang Technological University and DePaul University, where he was also the director of Chinese Studies program.

Scholars from disciplines such as (intercultural) philosophy and religious studies will have much to gain from this.

• Introduction: Why Confucianism? Chapter One: Harmony with NatureChapter Two: What People Really WantChapter Three: Emotions and Enjoying LifeChapter Four: Cultivating FeelingsChapter Five: LearningChapter Six: Ritual, Music and Embodied EmotionsChapter Seven: Temptations, Excuses, and Putting Ideas into PracticeChapter Eight: Power, Politics and Action BibliographyIndex

Franklin Perkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and editor of the journal Philosophy East and West. He is the author of Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2014), Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007), and Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light (2004), and was co-editor of Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems (2015). His books have been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Perkins has spent more than eight years teaching and conducting research in Asia, and has previously been a professor at Nanyang Technological University and DePaul University, where he was also the director of Chinese Studies program.

Scholars from disciplines such as (intercultural) philosophy and religious studies will have much to gain from this.

• Introduction: Why Confucianism? Chapter One: Harmony with NatureChapter Two: What People Really WantChapter Three: Emotions and Enjoying LifeChapter Four: Cultivating FeelingsChapter Five: LearningChapter Six: Ritual, Music and Embodied EmotionsChapter Seven: Temptations, Excuses, and Putting Ideas into PracticeChapter Eight: Power, Politics and Action BibliographyIndex