The Philosophy of Change
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The Philosophy of Change

Comparative Insights on the Yijing

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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The Philosophy of Change

Comparative Insights on the Yijing

About this book

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

In The Philosophy of Change, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng advances our understanding of the Yijing by analyzing its philosophy in comparison to Western philosophical traditions. Cheng focuses on critically comparing philosophies of science, religion, and metaphysics in Leibniz, Whitehead, Neville, and Cobb alongside classical Chinese views on reality, divinity, knowledge, and morality. The book begins and ends with questions related to the character of Chinese metaphysical traditions, which contrast with the mainline metaphysical traditions found in Western Europe and North America. Cheng argues throughout the book that the philosophical underpinnings of basic concepts in Chinese culture are ultimately rooted in key claims found within the Yijing??and one of its standard commentaries, the Yizhuan??. The book serves as a complementary volume to the author's previous book, The Primary Way: Philosophy of the Yijing, which lays out a comprehensive and systematic philosophy based on the symbolism and text of the classical document and its traditional commentaries.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: Comparative Insights and the Philosophy of the Yijing
  7. Chapter 1 On the Origins of Chinese Philosophy: Three Aspects of Origins
  8. Chapter 2 Classical Chinese Views of Reality and Divinity
  9. Chapter 3 The Trinity of Cosmology, Ecology, and Ethics in the Confucian Personhood
  10. Chapter 4 Toward an Integrative Pluralism of Religions: Embodying Yijing, Whitehead, and Cobb
  11. Chapter 5 On Neville’s Understanding of Chinese Philosophy: The Ontology of Wu (无), the Cosmology of Yi (易), and the Normalogy of Li (理)
  12. Chapter 6 Time in Chinese Philosophy
  13. Chapter 7 On the Hierarchical Theory of Time with Reference to Chinese Philosophy of Dao (道) and Qi (气)
  14. Chapter 8 Leibniz’s Notion of a Universal Characteristic and Symbolic Realism in the Yijing
  15. Appendix: Greek and Chinese Views on Time and the Timeless
  16. Notes
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Glossary Index
  20. Back Cover