Chinese-Western Comparative Metaphysics and Epistemology - A Topical Approach

This book is a comparative study of the fundamental metaphysical assumptions and their epistemological implications in Chinese and Western philosophy. The author uses a topical comparison methodology based on responses to a central topical issue to argue for commensurability in Chinese and Western metaphysics.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Metaphysics of Nature and Metaphysics of the Mind
Chapter 1: Cosmo-Substantial Metaphysics in Chinese and Aristotelian Philosophy
Chapter 2: The Cogito and Onto-Being of the Mind: Philosophical Early Modernity in Descartes' and Wang Yangming's Metaphysics
Chapter 3: Leibniz and Wang Yangming on the Joining of Morals to Metaphysics
Part II: The Foundation and Source of Knowledge
Chapter 4: Plato's and Xunzi's Consonant Epistemology and Normalization of the Musico-Poetic Discourse
Chapter 5: Mental Cloudiness and Partial Knowledge in Chinese and Western Epistemology
Part III: Hermeneutical and Methodological Approaches to Knowledge
Chapter 6: The Dao and the Form: Innate Divisions and Natural Hermeneutics in Plato and Zhuangzi
Chapter 7: Onto-Mind Reading in the Metaphysics of Leibniz and Wang Yangming
Chapter 8: Chinese Dialectic of Deduction and Induction: Bo-yue¿¿and ge-wu zhi-zhi¿¿¿¿
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By Mingjun Lu

Product details

• Authors: Mingjun Lu
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781793625076
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-507-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion; Studies in Comparative Philoso
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Oriental & Indian philosophy, East Asian & Indian philosophy