TY - BOOK AU - Hall,David L. AU - Ames,Roger T. TI - Anticipating China: thinking through the narratives of Chinese and Western culture SN - 0791424774 AV - DS721 .H24 1995 U1 - 303.48/21921051 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Civilization, Western KW - China KW - Civilization N1 - Introduction: Anticipating the Argument; 1; Clearing a Path to China; 2; Circles and Squares --; 1; Squaring the Circle; 1; From Chaos to Cosmos; 2; Rest and Permanence; 3; The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox; 4; Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagoras; 5; From Theoria to Theory; 6; Counterdiscourse: The Sophists; 7; Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies; 8; Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought; 9; Humanitas and the Imago Dei; 10; The Persistence of the Rational Ethos; 11; Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos --; 2; The Contingency of Culture; 1; The First and Second Problematics; 2; China and the First Problematic; 3; Comparing Comparative Methods; 4; Intercultural Vagueness --; 3; Extending the Circle; 1; Acosmotic "Beginnings"; 2; Analogical Discourse in the Confucian Analects; 3; Experiments in Rationalism; 4; The Emergence of Han Thinking; 5; The Dominance of Han Thinking; 6; A Closing Anticipation ER -