In
The Primary Way, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng synthesizes his lifetime of work on the
Yijing, also known as the
I Ching or
Book of Changes. Cheng offers a systematic engagement with the classic Chinese text as a philosophy that is still valuable and relevant today. In contemporary philosophical terms, Cheng has developed the ontological hermeneutics of the
Yijing as well as its philosophical methodology of symbolic reference in a holistic and onto-generative system of trigrams and hexagrams. The book is organized around eight themes that illuminate Cheng’s interpretation of the
Yijing as a philosophy for creative human action and transformation. He demonstrates how the philosophy of change in the
Yijing embodies early Chinese ontology, cosmology, epistemology, and virtue ethics in the interpretation of divinatory judgments. Cheng’s work shows how the philosophy of change contains a vision of humanity as creatively related to heaven and earth, and how it gives positive meaning to any change as part of a ceaseless creativity. With this understanding, it enables humanity to develop its potential as a partner of heaven and earth.
Table of Content
Foreword
Preface
1. Introducing the
Yijing (易经): Six Stages of Development and Six Topics of the
Yijing
2.
Yijing as Creative Inception of Chinese Philosophy
3. Interpreting a Paradigm of Change in Chinese Philosophy
4. Inquiring into the Primary Model:
Yijing and Chinese Ontological Hermeneutics
5. Philosophical Significance of
Guan: From
Guan (观) to Onto-Hermeneutical Unity of Methodology and Ontology
6.
Yin-Yang (阴阳) Way of Onto-Cosmic Thinking and Philosophy of the
Yi (易)
7. On Harmony as Transformation: Paradigms from the
Yijing
8.
Zhouyi (周易) and the Philosophy of
Wei (Positions 位)
9.
Li (理) and
Qi (气)
in the Yijing: A Reconsideration of Being and Nonbeing in Chinese Philosophy
10. On the
Yijing as a Symbolic System of Integrated Communication
11. On Zhu Xi’s Integration of
Yili (义理) and
Xianshu (象数) in the Study of the
Yijing
12. On Timeliness (
Shizhong 时中) in the
Analects and the
Yijing: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Relationship between Confucius and the
Yijing
Chinese Glossary
English Key Terms
Notes
A Bibliography of the
Yijing in Chinese
A Bibliography of the
Yijing in Western Languages
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Chung-ying Cheng is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i. His many books include
New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press.
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