Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese

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Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.

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 developed in Greek and European thought. Brook Ziporyn traces the distinctive and surprising philosophical journeys found in the works of the formative Confucian and Daoist thinkers back to a prevailing set of assumptions that tends to see questions of identity, value, and knowledgeâ€”the subject matter of ontology, ethics, and epistemology in other traditionsâ€”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 toward what is thinkable for us. The actual inhabitation and mastery of these alternative modes of thinking is an even greater adventure in intellectual and experiential expansion.

Country	USA
Author	Brook Ziporyn
Binding	Paperback
Brand	State University of New York Press
EAN	9781438442884
ISBN	1438442882
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Label	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	334
PublicationDate	2013-07-02
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Studio	State University of New York Press
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Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)