Download or read book Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi written by Edward J. Machle and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-08-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation and commentary on Xunzi’s Tian Lun argues against naturalistic interpretations of Tian. Tracing the course of interpretation of Xunzi down to the present, discussing some of the influences that affected how he was understood, and raising questions about some contemporary revisionary attempts, Machle suggests unusual lines of interpretation.