One and Many : : A Comparative Study of Plato's Philosophy and Daoism Represented by Ge Hong / / Jiayan Zhang.
Is the world one or many? Ji Zhang revisits this ancient philosophical question from the modern perspective of comparative studies. His investigation stages an intellectual exchange between Plato, founder of the Academy, and Ge Hong, who systematized Daoist belief and praxis. Zhang not only captures...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 53 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: "One and Many" as an Ontological Problem
- Part one
- Textual Studies
- Chapter 1. Ge Hong's Doctrine of Xuan Dao
- Chapter 2. Plato's Answer to the Pre-Socratic Debate
- Chapter 3. Ge Hong's Preservation of the One
- Chapter 4. Plato's Doctrine of Forms
- Chapter 5. Two Forms of Enlightenment
- Chapter 6. Ge Hong's Doctrine of Immortal Beings
- Part Two
- Comparative Ontology
- Chapter 7. Nothing
- Chapter 8. The One
- Chapter 9. The Many
- Conclusion: Comparative Methodology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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