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mind-body problem
soul
heart
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Even though the mind-body problem has been a primary concern in Indo-European thought, philosophers in Ancient China showed little interest in the subject. However, in recent times, the implicit defense of their position has been fiercely debated. Histo-rians have formed a consensus that they never supported a strong ontological dualism and that furthermore such an idea would have been a strange in pre-Buddhist China. The ontological and intel-lectual assumptions of the time support this view. Some scholars have recently argued evidence exists of mind-body dualism at that time but my critical analysis of these proposals concludes that their arguments are not strong enough to refute the traditional consensus.References
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