Huan Tan receives a special section here, unlike other of his contemporaries such as Liu Xin, because of his influence on the philosophy of the rest of the Eastern Han, both in argumentative style and in content. In Huan’s major philosophical work, Xinlun (“New Discourses”), which only exists today in fragmentary form, he offered a naturalistic and physicalistic view of mind/spirit (jingshen 精神), arguing that the spirit is dependent on and linked to the body, and that it thus dies with the death