Beyond Oneness and Difference
Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents
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Beyond Oneness and Difference
Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents
About this book
Beyond Oneness and Difference considers the development of one of the key concepts of Chinese intellectual history, Li. A grasp of the strange history of this term and its seemingly conflicting implications—as oneness and differentiation, as the knowable and as what transcends knowledge, as the good and as the transcendence of good and bad, as order and as omnipresence—raises questions about the most basic building blocks of our thinking. This exploration began in the book's companion volume, Ironies of Oneness and Difference, which detailed how formative Confucian and Daoist thinkers approached and demarcated concepts of coherence, order, and value, identifying both ironic and non-ironic trends in the elaboration of these core ideas. In the present volume, Brook Ziporyn goes on to examine the implications of Li as they develop in Neo-Daoist metaphysics and in Chinese Buddhism, ultimately becoming foundational to Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism, the orthodox ideology of late imperial China. Ziporyn's interrogation goes beyond analysis to reveal the unsuspected range of human thinking on these most fundamental categories of ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Li 理 and Coherence: Recap of Ironies of Oneness and Difference and Terminological Clarifications
- Chapter One: Li 理 as a Fundamental Category in Chinese Thought
- Chapter Two: The Advent of Li, Ironic and Non-Ironic
- Chapter Three: The Development of Li in Ironic Texts
- Chapter Four: The Advent of Li as a Technical Philosophical Term
- Chapter Five: Li as the Convergence of Coherence and Incoherence in Wang Bi and Guo Xiang
- Chapter Six: Beyond One and Many: Li in Tiantai and Huayan Buddhism
- Chapter Seven: Mind, Omnipresence, and Coherence in Tiantai and Huayan
- Conclusion: The Vertex of the Vortex
- Epilogue: Toward Li in Neo-Confucianism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover