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From Taoism to Einstein : Ki and Ri in Chinese and Japanese thought : a survey

Title
From Taoism to Einstein : Ki and Ri in Chinese and Japanese thought : a survey / Olof Lidin.
Author
Lidin, Olof G., 1926-2018.
Publication
Folkestone, Kent : Global Oriental, 2006.

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Description
xviii, 263 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
This is a survey of Confucian thought, Chinese and Japanese, with a new theme that ends up with a conclusion that links early Taoist philosophy and modern rational thought. Ki emerged first and is the thread that runs through the millennia of Chinese philosophy. Ri was added later in Sung times and, together, ki and ri became the mainstay and core of Chinese beliefs in Sung (960-1279), Ming (1279-1644) and Ching (1644-1911) times. The author takes the view that ki can profitably be compared with European philosophy. In China the ki thread appears as an original 'primal ki' (genki) which is the source of all things and affairs. The search is for the whole. In Greece, and later in Europe, the thinking goes in the opposite direction: it searches for the exact truth in the independent units of the cosmos, the atoms - the truth being found in the part.
Subject
  • Philosophy, Japanese > History
  • Philosophy, Chinese > History
  • Philosophy, Confucian
  • Qi (Chinese philosophy)
  • Japan > Civilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221), glossary, and index.
Call Number
*OVR 06-8150
ISBN
1901903788
LCCN
9781901903782
OCLC
66416358
Author
Lidin, Olof G., 1926-2018.
Title
From Taoism to Einstein : Ki and Ri in Chinese and Japanese thought : a survey / Olof Lidin.
Imprint
Folkestone, Kent : Global Oriental, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221), glossary, and index.
Other Standard Identifier
9781901903782
Research Call Number
*OVR 06-8150
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