Anticipating China :
Hall, David L.
Anticipating China : thinking through the narratives of Chinese and Western culture / David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995. - xxiii, 334 p. ; 24 cm.
Introduction: Anticipating the Argument. Clearing a Path to China. Circles and Squares -- Squaring the Circle. From Chaos to Cosmos. Rest and Permanence. The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox. Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagoras. From Theoria to Theory. Counterdiscourse: The Sophists. Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies. Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought. Humanitas and the Imago Dei. The Persistence of the Rational Ethos. Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos -- The Contingency of Culture. The First and Second Problematics. China and the First Problematic. Comparing Comparative Methods. Intercultural Vagueness -- Extending the Circle. Acosmotic "Beginnings" Analogical Discourse in the Confucian Analects. Experiments in Rationalism. The Emergence of Han Thinking. The Dominance of Han Thinking. A Closing Anticipation. 1. 2. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
0791424774 0791424782
94029157
Civilization, Western.
China--Civilization.
DS721 / .H24 1995
303.48/21921051
Anticipating China : thinking through the narratives of Chinese and Western culture / David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995. - xxiii, 334 p. ; 24 cm.
Introduction: Anticipating the Argument. Clearing a Path to China. Circles and Squares -- Squaring the Circle. From Chaos to Cosmos. Rest and Permanence. The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox. Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagoras. From Theoria to Theory. Counterdiscourse: The Sophists. Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies. Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought. Humanitas and the Imago Dei. The Persistence of the Rational Ethos. Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos -- The Contingency of Culture. The First and Second Problematics. China and the First Problematic. Comparing Comparative Methods. Intercultural Vagueness -- Extending the Circle. Acosmotic "Beginnings" Analogical Discourse in the Confucian Analects. Experiments in Rationalism. The Emergence of Han Thinking. The Dominance of Han Thinking. A Closing Anticipation. 1. 2. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
0791424774 0791424782
94029157
Civilization, Western.
China--Civilization.
DS721 / .H24 1995
303.48/21921051