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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817351303321

Autore

Ziporyn Brook <1964->

Titolo

Beyond oneness and difference : Li and coherence in Chinese Buddhist thought and its antecedents / / Brook Ziporyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-4619-5140-2

1-4384-4819-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Disciplina

181/.112

Soggetti

Li

Philosophy, Chinese

Truth - Coherence theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents               ""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Introduction: Li ç?? and Coherence: Recap of Ironies of Oneness and Difference and Terminological Clarifications""; ""Chapter One: Li ç?? as a Fundamental Category in Chinese Thought""; ""Needham and Organic Pattern                                  ""; ""Hansen and the Mass Noun Hypothesis                                          ""; ""Graham and the Absent Copula and Correlative Thinking                                                            ""; ""Peterson and Coherence                             ""

""Hall and Ames and the Focus/Field                                        """"Chapter Two: The Advent of Li Ironic and Non-Ironic""; ""Li as “Greatest Coherenceâ€? in the Xunzi                                              ""; ""“Heavenly Principleâ€? (å?©ç?? tianli) Ironic and Non-Ironic in the “Inner Chaptersâ€? of the Zhuangzi and “The Record of Musicâ€?""; ""Li in the “Wingsâ€? to the Zhouyi                                      ""; ""Li and Centrality in Dong Zhongshu (179â€?104 BCE)                                                       ""

""Chapter Three: The Development of Li in Ironic Texts                                                           """"Li and Non-Ironic Coherence in the Later Parts of the Zhuangzi: Integrating the Non-Ironic                                                                                                



""; ""First Type: Li and Dao Both Non-Ironic                                             ""; ""Second Type: Dao Ironic, Li Nonâ€?Ironic""; ""Third Type: Dao and Li Both Ironic                                         ""; ""Integrating Types Two and Three                                      ""

""Chapter Four: The Advent of Li as a Technical Philosophical Term                                                                       """"Toward the Ironic: Li in the Pre-Ironic Daoism of the Guanzi                                                                   ""; ""Li Defined: The Later Two-and-a-half Chapters of the Guanzi                                                                  ""; ""The Hanfeizi Commentary on the Laozi: Li as Division and the Yielding Dao                                                                                ""

""Cosmological Dao and Its Li in the Huainanzi                                                   """"Chapter Five: Li as the Convergence of Coherence and Incoherence in Wang Bi and Guo Xiang                                                                                                ""; ""Subjective Perspectivism in Wang Bi: The Advent of Ti and Yong  ç?? as Ironic Structure""; ""Applications of the Multiplicity of Li in Wangâ€?s Laozi Commentary                                                                        ""

""Convergence of Coherence and Incoherence in Guo Xiang: Li as “Just the Way It Is"" as Limit, and as Vanishing Convergence""

Sommario/riassunto

"Continues the author's discussion of the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism"--Provided by publisher.