Language And Logic In Ancient China

Author : Chad Hansen
Publisher : Advanced Reasoning Forum
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781938421556

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Guided by 20th century theories of language, Hansen's novel approach to interpretive theory launched the modern analytical study of Ancient Chinese philosophy. This 1983 publication challenged authority-based traditional "religious" accounts stemming from 18th and 19th century missionary dictionaries and reliance on interpretive authority. "Hansen shows that one tiny grammatical question... has profound implications for the understanding of Chinese philosophy. ...This is surely a decisive breakthrough ... a great success. His observations about Chinese thought in general are always stimulating and illuminating. A book which excites one to rethink things from the foundations." A. C. Graham "An ambitious and provocative book concerning the relationship between language and thought in ancient China. ... a novel and powerful theory about the nature of classical Chinese language ... a better understanding of many issues in classical Chinese philosophy." P. J. Ivanhoe "[The] importance of this book lies ... in its engaging style, novel ideas, and rigorous argumentation, which can serve as a model for future work in Chinese philosophy. Hansen takes Chinese philosophy seriously as philosophy. For anyone tired of the superficial summaries or scholastic commentaries that so often characterize this field, Hansen's book will be a memorable and welcome change." Michael Martin

Author : Janusz Chmielewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 8392539249

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Language and Logic in Ancient China by Janusz Chmielewski Pdf

Author : Joseph Needham,Christoph Harbsmeier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 052157143X

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 1, Language and Logic in Traditional China by Joseph Needham,Christoph Harbsmeier Pdf

The first systematic survey of the conceptual history of basic logical terminology in ancient China.

Author : Zhenbin Sun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783642548659

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Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China by Zhenbin Sun Pdf

This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. The work examines ancient Chinese philosophy through the pair of concepts known as ming-shi. By analyzing the pre-Qin thinkers’ discourse on ming and shi, the work explores how Chinese philosophers dealt with issues not only in language but also in ontology, epistemology, ethics, axiology, and logic. Through this discourse analysis, readers are invited to rethink the relationship of language to thought and behavior. The author criticizes and corrects vital misunderstandings of Chinese culture and highlights the anti-dualism and pragmatic character of Chinese thoughts. The rich meaning of the ming-shi pair is displayed by revealing its connection to other philosophical issues. The chapters show how discourse on language and reality shapes a central characteristic of Chinese culture, the practical zhi. They illuminate the interplay of Chinese theories of language and Dao as Chinese wisdom and worldview. Readers who are familiar with pragmatics and postmodernism will recognize the common points in ancient Chinese philosophy and contemporary Western philosophy, as they emerge through these chapters. The work will particularly appeal to scholars of philosophy, philosophy of language, communication studies and linguistics.

Author : Joachim Kurtz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047426844

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The Discovery of Chinese Logic by Joachim Kurtz Pdf

This book analyzes the discovery of Chinese logic as a paradigmatic case of the epistemic shifts that have shaped interpretations of China’s intellectual heritage. Reconstructing the transcultural genealogy of a modern discourse, it adds a neglected chapter to the global history of philosophy.

Author : Robert Wardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139428255

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Aristotle in China by Robert Wardy Pdf

In this book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge topic in an analysis of linguistic relativism, with specific reference to a reading of the ming li t'an ('The Investigation of the Theory of Names'), a seventeenth-century Chinese translation of Aristotle's Categories. Throughout his investigation, Wardy addresses important questions. Do the basis structures of language shape the major thought-patterns of its native speakers? Could philosophy be guided and constrained by the language in which it is done? What factors, from grammar and logic to cultural and religious expectations, influence translation? And does Aristotle survive rendition into Chinese intact? His answers will fascinate philosphers, Sinologists, classicists, linguists and anthropologists, and will make a major contribution to the existing literature.

Author : Chunlan Jin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811523373

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Textual Patterns of the Eight-Part Essays and Logic in Ancient Chinese Texts by Chunlan Jin Pdf

This book systematically depicts the theory of textual patterns (chengshi) of the eight-part essays and logic in ancient Chinese texts. With the rare materials, it covers all the basic and important aspects of the whole process and values of chengshi, such as the transformation of different parts and the coherent expression of the doctrines, the planning of writing, and the application to the aesthetic and pedagogic fields. It also explores the similarities and disparities of logical patterns between ancient Chinese and Western texts. Though entirely fresh and tentative, the contrastive studies get new insights into the logic and philosophical concepts hidden in the writings for better understanding of the uniqueness and richness implied in Chinese culture.

Author : John Makeham
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791419835

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Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought by John Makeham Pdf

This is the first Western study of the philosophy of Xu Gan (170-217), a Confucian thinker who lived at a nodal point in the history of Chinese thought, when Han scholasticism had become ossified and the creative and independent quality that characterized Wei-Jin thought was just emerging. As the theme of his study, Makeham develops an original and richly detailed account of ming shi, 'name and actuality,' one of the key pairs of concepts in early Chinese thought. He shows how Xu Gan's understanding of the 'name and actuality' relationship was most immediately influenced by Xu Gan's understanding of why the Han dynasty had collapsed, yet had its roots in a tradition of discourse that spanned the classical period (circa 500-150 B.C.E.). In reconstructing the philosophical background of Xu Gan's understanding of the relationship between 'name and actuality,' Makeham identifies two antithetical theories of naming in early Chinese thought--nominalist and correlative--a distinction that is as great as the Realist-Nominalist distinction of Western thought. He shows how Xu Gan's views on the name and actuality relationship were animated, on the one hand, by a rejection of nominalist theories of naming, and on the other hand, by a novel appropriation of correlative theories of naming. The study also analyzes two of the more immediate social and intellectual issues in the late Eastern Han (25-220) period that had prompted Xu Gan to discuss the name and actuality relationship: the ethos of the scholar-gentry (ming jiao) and Han approaches to classical scholarship. Makeham demonstrates how Xu Gan's critique of these matters is valuable not only as a late Han philosophical account of what had led to the demise of the 400-year-old Han dynasty, but also as a mode of conceptualizing that contributed to the new direction that philosophical thinking took in the third century C.E..

Author : Joseph Needham,Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 052146773X

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The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5 by Joseph Needham,Colin A. Ronan Pdf

This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : China
ISBN : UCSC:32106014955808

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Science and Civilisation in China by Joseph Needham Pdf

Author : Joseph Needham,Christoph Harbsmeier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 052157143X

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 1, Language and Logic in Traditional China by Joseph Needham,Christoph Harbsmeier Pdf

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 7 Part 1 is the first book in the final volume of this unique resource. The Chinese culture is the only culture in the world that has developed systematic logical definitions and reflections on its own and on the basis of a non-Indo-European language. Christoph Harbsmeier discusses the basic features of the classical Chinese language that made it a suitable medium for science in ancient China, discussing in detail a wide range of abstract concepts that are crucial for the development of scientific discourse. There is special emphasis on the conceptual history of logical terminology in ancient China, and on traditional Chinese views on their own language. Finally the book provides an overview of the development of logical reflection in ancient China, first in terms of the forms of arguments that were deployed in ancient Chinese texts, and then in terms of ancient Chinese theoretical concerns with logical matters.

Author : Yiu-ming Fung
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030290337

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Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic by Yiu-ming Fung Pdf

This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces the basic ideas and theories of Chinese thought in a comprehensive and analytical way. It covers thoughts in ancient, pre-modern and modern China from a historical point of view. It deals with topics in logical (including logico-philosophical) concepts and theories rooted in China, Indian and Western Logic transplanted to China, and the development of logical studies in contemporary China and other Chinese communities. The term “philosophy of logic” or “logico-philosophical thought” is used in this book to represent “logical thought” in a broad sense which includes thinking on logical concepts, modes of reasoning, and linguistic ideas related to logic and philosophical logic. Unique in its approach, the book uses Western logical theories and philosophy of language, Chinese philology, and history of ideas to deal with the basic ideas and major problems in logical thought and logical thinking in China. In doing so, it advances the understanding of the lost tradition in Chinese philosophical studies.

Author : Steven Shankman,Stephen W. Durrant
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791453138

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Early China/Ancient Greece by Steven Shankman,Stephen W. Durrant Pdf

The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.

Author : Derong Chen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739166727

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Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy by Derong Chen Pdf

In Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics, Derong Chen examines Chinese philosophy through a critical analysis of Feng Youlan's nnew metaphysics. He views metaphysics in Chinese philosophy as a metaphorical metaphysics separate from Western metaphysics. In examining the historical influences and contemporary reaction to Feng's work, he identify's Feng's system as the continuation of the Chinese philosophical tradition. This approach is most applicable to scholars of comparative philosophy and Chinese philosophy.

Author : Shi Hu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046713264

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The Development of the Logical Method in Ancient China by Shi Hu Pdf

The object and scope of the present study I have indicated in the introductory chapter. I wish only to state here the methods of treatment employed in this essay and its main points of departure from traditional scholarship in China. Since the present essay is intended to be an historical study, the first problem it has had to face is the choice of source-material. It is impossible for an occidental reader to imagine the tremendous burden of tradition which I have found necessary to otherthrow in writing this work. -- Preface.