Beyond Oneness and Difference - Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents (Hardcover, New)

"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 implications 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 omnipresence 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."

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	November 2013
Authors:	Brook Ziporyn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	432
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-4817-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Oriental & Indian philosophy Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > General Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > Oriental & Indian philosophy Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > General
LSN:	1-4384-4817-1
Barcode:	9781438448176

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