عنوان

Ironies of oneness and difference :

(Number (ISBN

1438442890

(Number (ISBN

9781438442891

Number

b419034

Title Proper

Ironies of oneness and difference :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

coherence in early Chinese thought : prolegomena to the study of Li /

First Statement of Responsibility

Brook Ziporyn

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 323 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and index

Text of Note

Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the unsuspected range of human thinking on the most basic categories of experience. The way in which early Chinese thinkers approached concepts such as one and many, sameness and difference, self and other, and internal and external stand in stark contrast to the way parallel concepts entrenched in much of modern thinking development in Greek and European thought. Brook Ziporyn traces the distinctive and surprising philosophical journey found in the works of the formative Confucian and Daoist thinkers back to a prevailing set of as sumptions that tends to see questions of identity, value, and knowledge-the subject matter of ontology, ethics, and epistemology in other traditions-as all ultimately relating to questions about coherence in one form or another. Mere awareness of how many different ways human beings can think and have thought about these categories is itself a game changer for our own attitudes towards what is thinkable for us. The actual inhabitation and mastery of these alternative modes of thinking is an even greater adventure in intellectual and experiental expansion

Li

Philosophy, Chinese

Truth-- Coherence theory

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ziporyn, Brook,1964-

Date of Transaction

20141208232221.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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