04178nam 2200661Ia 450 991097479400332120200520144314.097814384429071438442904(CKB)2670000000278387(OCoLC)817565541(CaPaEBR)ebrary10622339(SSID)ssj0000780900(PQKBManifestationID)11475986(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000780900(PQKBWorkID)10802924(PQKB)10032107(MiAaPQ)EBC3408641(MdBmJHUP)muse18654(Au-PeEL)EBL3408641(CaPaEBR)ebr10622339(OCoLC)859674293(DE-B1597)683836(DE-B1597)9781438442907(Perlego)2672782(EXLCZ)99267000000027838720110920d2012 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIronies of oneness and difference coherence in early Chinese thought : prolegomena to the study of Li /Brook ZiporynAlbany State University of New York Pressc20121 online resource (335 p.) SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781438442891 1438442890 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Ironies of Oneness and Difference -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Rethinking Same and Different -- Coherence and Li: Plan and Method of this Book and its Sequel -- Chapter One: Essences, Universals, and Omnipresence: Absolute Sameness and Difference -- Essences, Universals, Categories, Ideas: Simple Location and the Disjunction of Same and Different in Mainstream Western Philosophy -- Same and Different in form and Matter -- Two Opposite Derivations of the Omnipresent -- Chapter Two: What is Coherence?: Chinese Paradigms -- Coherence as Opposed to Law, Rule, Principle, Pattern: Harmony Versus Repeatability -- Is White Horse Horse? -- Qian Mu's Pendulum -- Ironic and Non-Ironic Coherence -- Chapter Three: Non‑Ironic Coherence and Negotiable Continuity -- Coherence and Omniavailability of Value in Confucius and Mencius -- Coherence and Heaven in the Analects -- Ritual Versus Law: Cultural Grammar -- Rectification of Names: Negotiated Identity as a Function of Ritual -- Classes and Types in Mencius -- Omnipresence in Mencius -- Transition to Ironic Coherence: Qi‑Omnipresence and the Empty Center in Pre‑Ironic Proto‑Daoism -- Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence and the Discovery of the " Yin" -- The Laozi Tradition: Desiring W/holes -- Overview of Ironic Coherence in the Laozi -- The Five Meanings of the Unhewn: Omnipresence and Ironic Coherence in the Laozi -- Zhuangzi's Wild Card: Thing as Perspective -- Using the Wild Card -- The Wild Card Against Both Objective Truth and Subjective Solipsism -- Conclusion to Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence -- Chapter Five: Non‑Ironic Responses to Ironic Coherence in Xunzi and the Record of Ritual -- Xunzi and the Regulation of Sameness and Difference -- Omnipresence and Coherence in Xunzi -- Two Texts from the Record of Ritual (Liji): "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean".Chapter Six: The Yin‑Yang Compromise -- Yin‑Yang Theism in Dong Zhongshu: The Metastasis of Harmony and Irony -- An Alternate Yin‑Yang Divination System: Yang Xiong's Taixuanjing -- Conclusion and Summary: Toward Li -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.LiPhilosophy, ChineseTruthCoherence theoryLi.Philosophy, Chinese.TruthCoherence theory.181/.11Ziporyn Brook1964-1803664MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974794003321Ironies of oneness and difference4351310UNINA