A unique work on the underlying ontology, cosmology, and moral philosophy of the Yijing.
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.
Spis treści
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
O autorze
Robert Cummings Neville is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University. His many books include Metaphysics of Goodness: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization, also published by SUNY Press.
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