Ironies of Oneness and Difference : Coherence in Early Chinese Thought - Prolegomena to the Study of Li

by Ziporyn, Brook

• ISBN13: 9781438442891
• ISBN10: 1438442890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.

Author Biography

Brook Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Religion, and Comparative Thought at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His books include The Penumber Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Rethinking Same and Different	p. 2
Coherence and Li: Plan and Method of This Book and Its Sequel	p. 9
Essences, Universals, and Omnipresence: Absolute Sameness and Difference	p. 19
Essences, Universals, Categories, Ideas: Simple Location and the Disjunction of Same and Different in Mainstream Western Philosophy	p. 23
Same and Different in Form and Matter	p. 37
Two Opposite Derivations of the Omnipresent	p. 39
What is Coherence?: Chinese Paradigms	p. 49
Coherence as Opposed to Law, Rule, Principle, Pattern: Harmony Versus Repeatability	p. 63
Is White Horse Horse?	p. 71
Qian Mu's Pendulum	p. 77
Ironic and Non-Ironic Coherence	p. 84
Non-Ironic Coherence and Negotiable Continuity	p. 89
Coherence and Omniavailability of Value in Confucius and Mencius	p. 89
Coherence and Heaven in the Analects	p. 94
Ritual Versus Law: Cultural Grammar	p. 103
Rectification of Names: Negotiated Identity as a Function of Ritual	p. 111
Classes and Types in Mencius	p. 114
Omnipresence in Mencius	p. 127
Transition to Ironic Coherence: Qi-Omnipresence and the Empty Center in Pre-Ironic Proto-Daoism	p. 131
Ironic Coherence and the Discovery of the "Yin"	p. 139
The Laozi Tradition: Desiring W/holes	p. 139
Overview of Ironic Coherence in the Laozi	p. 142
The Five Meanings of the Unhewn: Omnipresence and Ironic Coherence in the Laozi	p. 146
Zhuangzi's Wild Card: Thing as Perspective	p. 162
Using the Wild Card	p. 183
The Wild Card against Both Objective Truth and Subjective Solipsism	p. 188
Conclusion to Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence	p. 195
Non-Ironic Responses to Ironic Coherence in Xunzi and the Record of Ritual	p. 199
Xunzi and the Regulation of Sameness and Difference	p. 199
Omnipresence and Coherence in Xunzi	p. 215
Two Texts from the Record of Ritual (Liji): "The Great Learning," and "The Doctrine of the Mean"	p. 220
The Yin-Yang Compromise	p. 229
Yin-Yang Theism in Dong Zhongshu: The Metastasis of Harmony and Irony	p. 250
An Alternate Yin-Yang Divination System: Yang Xiong's Taixuanjing	p. 255
Conclusion and Summary Toward Li	p. 265
Notes	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 315
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