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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziporyn, Brook, 1964-

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Li.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Truth--Coherence theory.

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438442907

1438442904

OCLC:

817565541