Reconstructing Metaphorical Metaphysics in Traditional Chinese Philosophy

Reconstructing Metaphorical Metaphysics in Traditional Chinese Philosophy

Author: Derong Chen

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1666922056

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This book proposes three new metaphysical categories: Meta-One (元一), Multi-One (殊一), and Utter-One (全一). The author argues that this new system of metaphorical metaphysics is rooted in and developed from traditional Chinese philosophy and is the metaphysical foundation of twenty-first century philosophy.


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Download or read book Reconstructing Metaphorical Metaphysics in Traditional Chinese Philosophy written by Derong Chen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes three new metaphysical categories: Meta-One (元一), Multi-One (殊一), and Utter-One (全一). The author argues that this new system of metaphorical metaphysics is rooted in and developed from traditional Chinese philosophy and is the metaphysical foundation of twenty-first century philosophy.


Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy

Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy

Author: Derong Chen

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011-08-16

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0739166727

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In Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics, Derong Chen examines Chinese philosophy through a critical analysis of Feng Youlan's nnew metaphysics. He views metaphysics in Chinese philosophy as a metaphorical metaphysics separate from Western metaphysics. In examining the historical influences and contemporary reaction to Feng's work, he identify's Feng's system as the continuation of the Chinese philosophical tradition. This approach is most applicable to scholars of comparative philosophy and Chinese philosophy.


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Download or read book Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy written by Derong Chen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics, Derong Chen examines Chinese philosophy through a critical analysis of Feng Youlan's nnew metaphysics. He views metaphysics in Chinese philosophy as a metaphorical metaphysics separate from Western metaphysics. In examining the historical influences and contemporary reaction to Feng's work, he identify's Feng's system as the continuation of the Chinese philosophical tradition. This approach is most applicable to scholars of comparative philosophy and Chinese philosophy.


Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems

Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems

Author: Chenyang Li

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1107093503

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The first English-language contributory volume on Chinese metaphysics, covering all major traditions from pre-Qin to the modern period.


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Download or read book Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems written by Chenyang Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language contributory volume on Chinese metaphysics, covering all major traditions from pre-Qin to the modern period.


Xiong Shili's Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937

Xiong Shili's Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937

Author: Yu Sang

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-06-08

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9004431586

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In Xiong Shili’s Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937, SANG Yu presents a detailed examination and analysis of how Xiong Shili gradually established his philosophical system of Reality (ti) and Function (yong), a key conceptual polarity in traditional Chinese philosophy.


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Download or read book Xiong Shili's Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937 written by Yu Sang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Xiong Shili’s Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937, SANG Yu presents a detailed examination and analysis of how Xiong Shili gradually established his philosophical system of Reality (ti) and Function (yong), a key conceptual polarity in traditional Chinese philosophy.


Reconstructing Chinese Metaphysics

Reconstructing Chinese Metaphysics

Author: Haiming Wen

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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Category and Meaning [microform] : a Critical Study of Feng Youlan's Metaphysics

Category and Meaning [microform] : a Critical Study of Feng Youlan's Metaphysics

Author: Derong Chen

Publisher: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9780494027660

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The results of our analysis show that Feng has overcome the traditional dualistic division between the metaphysical and the physical by inserting between the realm of truth and myriad things a realm of actuality. Our further analysis has also demonstrated that, Feng, by overloading empirical terms with metaphysical meaning in his metaphysical categories, is still continuing the metaphorical metaphysics in Chinese philosophical tradition. The larger contexts in which they appear and by which their meanings are specified are not at all purely logical propositions/discourses. Therefore, Feng has not successfully built up a logical metaphysical system, and what he has achieved is still a metaphorical metaphysics. Feng Youlan's (1885--1990) metaphysics is the theoretical foundation of his entire philosophical system. The main problematic this dissertation critically deals with is whether he has successfully built up a purely logical metaphysics as he claims to have. We continue the research program in the line of philosophy of language started by Angus Graham and Chad Hansen, and develop in Chapter One an approach of "systematic analysis" that analyzes the meaning and the abstractness of a Chinese metaphysical concept (term) by putting it back into the proposition (sentence), those of a proposition back into the discourse, and those of the discourse back into the system, in which they appear. With this approach, we characterize Chinese metaphysical thought, in contrast to the logical/speculative metaphysics in the West, as a kind of "metaphorical metaphysics." Employing this approach, we have analyzed the meanings, features and logical rationality of Feng's metaphysical categories of the "realm of truth" and the "realm of actuality" in Chapter Two, li and qi in Chapter Three, and dao ti and da quan in Chapter Four. We have also explored, in Chapter Five, the ethical application of his metaphysics that redefines and reconstructs Confucian theories of human nature, virtues, human relationships, and the meaning of human life by his new metaphysics and his theory of four realms of human life crowned by what he calls "the realm of heaven and earth."In the process of our systematic analysis, we have also proposed our theory of property, our justification of the logical rationality of the so-called "unthinkable" and "unfathomable" deemed by other scholars as mystical, and also our proposal of a "realm of humanity" to be inserted into Feng's "realm of morality" and "realm of heaven and earth," thereby to render the meaningfulness of human life more complete.


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Download or read book Category and Meaning [microform] : a Critical Study of Feng Youlan's Metaphysics written by Derong Chen and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results of our analysis show that Feng has overcome the traditional dualistic division between the metaphysical and the physical by inserting between the realm of truth and myriad things a realm of actuality. Our further analysis has also demonstrated that, Feng, by overloading empirical terms with metaphysical meaning in his metaphysical categories, is still continuing the metaphorical metaphysics in Chinese philosophical tradition. The larger contexts in which they appear and by which their meanings are specified are not at all purely logical propositions/discourses. Therefore, Feng has not successfully built up a logical metaphysical system, and what he has achieved is still a metaphorical metaphysics. Feng Youlan's (1885--1990) metaphysics is the theoretical foundation of his entire philosophical system. The main problematic this dissertation critically deals with is whether he has successfully built up a purely logical metaphysics as he claims to have. We continue the research program in the line of philosophy of language started by Angus Graham and Chad Hansen, and develop in Chapter One an approach of "systematic analysis" that analyzes the meaning and the abstractness of a Chinese metaphysical concept (term) by putting it back into the proposition (sentence), those of a proposition back into the discourse, and those of the discourse back into the system, in which they appear. With this approach, we characterize Chinese metaphysical thought, in contrast to the logical/speculative metaphysics in the West, as a kind of "metaphorical metaphysics." Employing this approach, we have analyzed the meanings, features and logical rationality of Feng's metaphysical categories of the "realm of truth" and the "realm of actuality" in Chapter Two, li and qi in Chapter Three, and dao ti and da quan in Chapter Four. We have also explored, in Chapter Five, the ethical application of his metaphysics that redefines and reconstructs Confucian theories of human nature, virtues, human relationships, and the meaning of human life by his new metaphysics and his theory of four realms of human life crowned by what he calls "the realm of heaven and earth."In the process of our systematic analysis, we have also proposed our theory of property, our justification of the logical rationality of the so-called "unthinkable" and "unfathomable" deemed by other scholars as mystical, and also our proposal of a "realm of humanity" to be inserted into Feng's "realm of morality" and "realm of heaven and earth," thereby to render the meaningfulness of human life more complete.


Philosophical Horizons

Philosophical Horizons

Author: Yang Guorong

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9004396306

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In Philosophical Horizons Yang draws freely from Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist texts, alongside great Western philosophers to provide penetrating discussions of some of the most important issues in modern philosophy—especially those topics related to comparative and Chinese philosophy.


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Download or read book Philosophical Horizons written by Yang Guorong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philosophical Horizons Yang draws freely from Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist texts, alongside great Western philosophers to provide penetrating discussions of some of the most important issues in modern philosophy—especially those topics related to comparative and Chinese philosophy.


Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues

Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues

Author: Yijie Tang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9811018693

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This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling, reflect a pursuit of an ideal goal in traditional Chinese philosophy characterized by the thought mode uniting man and nature.This book also discusses the anti-traditionalism of the May Fourth Movement, explaining that the true value of “sagacity theory” in traditional Chinese philosophy, especially in Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties, lies in its insights into universal life. In addition, existing ideas, issues, terminologies, concepts, and logic of Chinese philosophical thought were actually shaped by Western philosophy. It is necessary to be alienated from traditional status for the creation of a viable “Chinese philosophy.” “Modern Chinese philosophy” in the 1930s and 1940s was comprised of scholarly work that characteristically continued rather than followed the traditional discourse of Chinese philosophy. That is to say, in the process of studying and adapting Western philosophy, Chinese philosophers transformed Chinese philosophy from traditional to modern.In the end of the book, the author puts forward the idea of a “New Axial Age.” He emphasizes that the rejuvenation of Chinese culture we endeavor to pursue has to be deeply rooted in our mainstream culture with universal values incorporating cultures of other nations, especially the cultural essence of the West.


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Download or read book Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues written by Yijie Tang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling, reflect a pursuit of an ideal goal in traditional Chinese philosophy characterized by the thought mode uniting man and nature.This book also discusses the anti-traditionalism of the May Fourth Movement, explaining that the true value of “sagacity theory” in traditional Chinese philosophy, especially in Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties, lies in its insights into universal life. In addition, existing ideas, issues, terminologies, concepts, and logic of Chinese philosophical thought were actually shaped by Western philosophy. It is necessary to be alienated from traditional status for the creation of a viable “Chinese philosophy.” “Modern Chinese philosophy” in the 1930s and 1940s was comprised of scholarly work that characteristically continued rather than followed the traditional discourse of Chinese philosophy. That is to say, in the process of studying and adapting Western philosophy, Chinese philosophers transformed Chinese philosophy from traditional to modern.In the end of the book, the author puts forward the idea of a “New Axial Age.” He emphasizes that the rejuvenation of Chinese culture we endeavor to pursue has to be deeply rooted in our mainstream culture with universal values incorporating cultures of other nations, especially the cultural essence of the West.


On Metaphoring

On Metaphoring

Author: Kuang-Ming Wu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9789004123021

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Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.


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Download or read book On Metaphoring written by Kuang-Ming Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.


Late Works of Mou Zongsan

Late Works of Mou Zongsan

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9004278907

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In Late Works of Mou Zongsan, Jason Clower publishes English translations of this most famous and influential of modern Chinese philosophers for the first time. In essays chosen for their clarity and approachability, this leading contemporary Confucian speaks on the topics that best define his career: the future of Chinese culture and philosophy, the unique achievements of Confucianism, the place of Buddhism and Daoism in Chinese culture, and the possibility of a new partnership between Chinese and Western thought.


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Download or read book Late Works of Mou Zongsan written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Late Works of Mou Zongsan, Jason Clower publishes English translations of this most famous and influential of modern Chinese philosophers for the first time. In essays chosen for their clarity and approachability, this leading contemporary Confucian speaks on the topics that best define his career: the future of Chinese culture and philosophy, the unique achievements of Confucianism, the place of Buddhism and Daoism in Chinese culture, and the possibility of a new partnership between Chinese and Western thought.