Beyond Oneness and Difference
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Beyond Oneness and Difference

Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents

Brook Ziporyn

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Beyond Oneness and Difference

Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents

Brook Ziporyn

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Beyond Oneness and Difference considers the development of one of the key concepts of Chinese intellectual history, Li. A grasp of the strange history of this term and its seemingly conflicting implicationsā€”as oneness and differentiation, as the knowable and as what transcends knowledge, as the good and as the transcendence of good and bad, as order and as omnipresenceā€”raises questions about the most basic building blocks of our thinking. This exploration began in the book's companion volume, Ironies of Oneness and Difference, which detailed how formative Confucian and Daoist thinkers approached and demarcated concepts of coherence, order, and value, identifying both ironic and non-ironic trends in the elaboration of these core ideas. In the present volume, Brook Ziporyn goes on to examine the implications of Li as they develop in Neo-Daoist metaphysics and in Chinese Buddhism, ultimately becoming foundational to Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism, the orthodox ideology of late imperial China. Ziporyn's interrogation goes beyond analysis to reveal the unsuspected range of human thinking on these most fundamental categories of ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781438448190
Topic
Philosophie
Subtopic
Orientalische Philosophie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Li ē† and Coherence: Recap of Ironies of Oneness and Difference and Terminological Clarifications
  7. Chapter One: Li ē† as a Fundamental Category in Chinese Thought
  8. Chapter Two: The Advent of Li, Ironic and Non-Ironic
  9. Chapter Three: The Development of Li in Ironic Texts
  10. Chapter Four: The Advent of Li as a Technical Philosophical Term
  11. Chapter Five: Li as the Convergence of Coherence and Incoherence in Wang Bi and Guo Xiang
  12. Chapter Six: Beyond One and Many: Li in Tiantai and Huayan Buddhism
  13. Chapter Seven: Mind, Omnipresence, and Coherence in Tiantai and Huayan
  14. Conclusion: The Vertex of the Vortex
  15. Epilogue: Toward Li in Neo-Confucianism
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover
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APA 6 Citation

Ziporyn, B. (2013). Beyond Oneness and Difference ([edition unavailable]). State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2674664/beyond-oneness-and-difference-li-and-coherence-in-chinese-buddhist-thought-and-its-antecedents-pdf (Original work published 2013)

Chicago Citation

Ziporyn, Brook. (2013) 2013. Beyond Oneness and Difference. [Edition unavailable]. State University of New York Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2674664/beyond-oneness-and-difference-li-and-coherence-in-chinese-buddhist-thought-and-its-antecedents-pdf.

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Ziporyn, B. (2013) Beyond Oneness and Difference. [edition unavailable]. State University of New York Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2674664/beyond-oneness-and-difference-li-and-coherence-in-chinese-buddhist-thought-and-its-antecedents-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Ziporyn, Brook. Beyond Oneness and Difference. [edition unavailable]. State University of New York Press, 2013. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.