Chinese metaphysics and its problems / edited by Chenyang Li and Franklin Perkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, Chenyang, 1956- editor.

Perkins, Franklin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Chinese Metaphysics & its Problems

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of new essays is the first English-language anthology devoted to Chinese metaphysics. The essays explore the key themes of Chinese philosophy, from pre-Qin to modern times, starting with important concepts such as yin-yang and qi and taking the reader through the major periods in Chinese thought - from the Classical period, through Chinese Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, into the twentieth-century philosophy of Xiong Shili. They explore the major traditions within Chinese philosophy, including Daoism and Mohism, and a broad range of metaphysical topics, including monism, theories of individuation, and the relationship between reality and falsehood. The volume will be a valuable resource for upper-level students and scholars of metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, or comparative philosophy, and with its rich insights into the ethical, social and political dimensions of Chinese society, it will also interest students of Asian studies and Chinese intellectual history.

Contents:

Yinyang narrative of reality: Chinese metaphysical thinking / Robin R. Wang

In defense of Chinese qi-naturalism / Jeeloo Liu

What is a thing (wu?)? the problem of individuation in early Chinese metaphysics / Franklin Perkins

The Mohist conception of reality / Chris Fraser

Reading the Zhongyong 'metaphysically' / Roger Ames

Logos and Dao: conceptions of reality in heraclitus and Laozi / Jiyuan Yu

Constructions of reality: metaphysics in the ritual traditions of classical Cina / Michael Puett

Concepts of reality in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism / Hans-Rudolf Kantor

Being and events: Huayan Buddhism's concept of event and whitehead's ontological principle / Vincent Shen

Harmony as substance: Zang Zai's metaphysics of polar relations / Brook Ziporyn

A lexicography of Zhu Xi's metaphysics / John Berthrong

Xiong Shili's understanding of the relationship between the ontological and the phenomenal / John Makeham.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Wang, Robin. Yinyang narrative of reality

ISBN:

1-316-28976-1

1-316-31040-X

1-316-32378-1

1-316-33046-X

1-316-32712-4

1-316-33380-9

1-316-32042-1

1-316-14518-2