Philosophy of the Yi Unity and Dialectics

by Cheng, Chung-Ying; Ng, On-cho

• ISBN13: 9781444334111
• ISBN10: 1444334115
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume, an assemblage of essays previously published in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, conveniently and strategically brings together some of the trenchant interpretations and analyses of the salient, structural aspects of the philosophy of the Yijing. They reveal how the ancient Classic offers a graphically vivid and conceptually dynamic dramaturgy of the ways in which the natural world works in conjunction with the human one. Its cosmological architectonics and philosophical worldview continue to have enormous purchase on our current imagination, even though readerly imperatives and responses have rendered this classic into a text of multiple significances, catering to pluralistic readerships and clienteles. Nonetheless, the essays in this volume lay bare some of the original authorly visions and insights of the Yijing, clearly showing that their apparent truthfulness to our cosmic and human conditions inspire philosophical and even theological questions. The Yijingrs"s authorial designs of the eight trigrams and hexagrams, which encapsulate the primordial state of homo-cosmic phenomena and situations, together with the yin-yang forces and the dao, are taken for granted as integers in a grand universal equation, factored out to represent a ceaselessly changing cosmos in which heaven, earth and humanity commingle, such that the whole and unity can be found in the individual and the opposite, and vice versa.

Author Biography

Chung Ying Cheng is is a Taiwanese philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He received his BA in 1956 from National Taiwan University, his MA in 1958 from University of Washington, and PhD in 1964 from Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Rehearsing the Old and Anticipating the New

On Harmony as Transformation: Paradigms from the Yijing

A Set Theory Analysis of the Logic of the Yijing

The Structure of Change in the Yijing

Li and Qi in the Yijing: A Reconsideration of Being and Nonbeing in Chinese Philosophy

The Yijing and the Formation of the Huayan Philosophy: An Analysis of a Key Aspect of Chinese Buddhism

Time as Emotion versus Time as Moralization: Whitehead and the Yi Jing

Flowers and Steps in the Boolean Lattice of Hexagrams

Select Bibliography of Works on the Yijing since 1985

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