
By Peter Kien-hong Yu
The historical chinese language students are keen on making use of the Yin and Yang diagram to correlate virtually everything. This book continues that culture and makes use of the model to examine different non-“dialectical” theories and models. The significant finding qua contribution during this ebook is to indicate that the 4 diagrams are comparable to the BaGua or BaGuaTu (BG), a set of eight ancient China symbolic notations/gossip. Another discovering is that dialectical/crab and frog movement comment is simply the other of a non-dialectical/crab and frog movement (usually deductive, linear, or reason and impression) comment, or, at top, they have to meet half-way.
The significant initiatives of this booklet are to, first, follow the author's one-dot thought, that's shored up by way of the crab and frog movement version, to transform different theories and types in addition to reviews and, second, follow his concept and version to reinvent a few recognized western-derived theories and versions and reports, comparable to video game theory. The try is to slender down the space among the East and the West scholarship/XueShu, greatly outlined, making the ebook of curiosity to jap and Western philosophers and students alike.
Read or Download One-dot Theory Described, Explained, Inferred, Justified, and Applied: 3 (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy) PDF
Best religious & spiritual eastern philosophy books
The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine: 102 (Philosophy and Medicine)
Regenerative medication is wealthy with promethean delivers. using human embryonic stem cells in examine is justified by means of its advocates when it comes to grants to healing a variety of ailments and disabilities, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism to the result of middle assaults and spinal twine accidents. extra extensively, there's the promethean attract of having the ability to revamp human organic nature by way of the ambitions and issues of people.
The paintings explores the historic and highbrow context of Tsongkhapa's philosophy and addresses the serious matters concerning questions of improvement and originality in Tsongkhapa's concept. It additionally bargains largely with considered one of Tsongkhapa's basic matters, specifically his makes an attempt to illustrate that the center manner philosophy's deconstructive research doesn't negate the truth of the typical international.
Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy
Authors from around the globe unite which will domesticate discussion among Asian and Western philosophy. The papers forge a brand new, East-West comparative direction mainly variety of matters in Kant experiences. the idea that of personhood, the most important for either traditions, serves as a springboard to handle concerns akin to wisdom acquisition and schooling, ethics and self-identity, religious/political neighborhood development, and cross-cultural figuring out.
Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings (Chinese-Western Discourse)
Like artists, vital writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a worldly author, deeply rooted within the chinese language earlier whereas prompted by means of paragons of Western modernity. the current quantity brings jointly for the 1st time a set of essays at the subject matters of freedom and destiny within the inventive works of Gao Xingjian.
- Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita Volume: Volume 2
- A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)
- The Cloud of Nothingness: The Negative Way in Nagarjuna and John of the Cross (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures)
- Spirit of Shaolin: Eine Kung Fu Philosophie (German Edition)
Extra resources for One-dot Theory Described, Explained, Inferred, Justified, and Applied: 3 (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy)
Sample text