Abridged | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction: Anticipating the Argument | |
Clearing a Path to China | |
Circles and Squares | |
Squaring the Circle | |
From Chaos to Cosmos | |
Rest and Permanence | |
The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox | |
Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagors | |
From Theoria to Theory | |
Counterdiscourse: The Sophists | |
Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies | |
Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought | |
Humanitas and the Imago Dei | |
The Persistence of the Rational Ethos | |
Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos | |
The Contingency of Culture | |
The First and Second Problematics | |
China and the First Problematic | |
Comparing Comparative Methods | |
Intercultural Vagueness | |
Extending the Circle | |
Acosmotic "Beginnings" | |
Analogical Discource in the Confucian Analects | |
Experiments in Rationalism | |
The Emergence of Han Thinking | |
The Dominance of Han Thinking | |
A Closing Anticipation | |
Notes | |
Bibliography of Works Cited | |
Index | |
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