Philosophy of the Yi: Unity and Dialectics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444334115 ISBN 13: 9781444334111

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Synopsis

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.

• Key essays published in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy brought together in a single volume
• The book offers incisive interpretations and analysis of the most significant aspects of the philosophy of Yi
• Provides insights into the ways in which the natural and human worlds work in conjunction with one another

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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 Yijing'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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1444334115
• ISBN 13: 9781444334111
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Cheng Chung-Ying, Ng On-cho