Ironies of oneness and difference : coherence in early Chinese thought : prolegomena to the study of Li / / Brook Ziporyn

• Autore: Ziporyn Brook <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 181/.11
• Soggetto topico: Li; Philosophy, Chinese; Truth - Coherence theory
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ironies of oneness and difference
• ISBN: 9781438442907; 1438442904
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974794003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II