Xiong Shili's understanding of reality and function, 1920-1937 / / by Yu Sang.

• Superior document: Modern Chinese philosophy ; Volume 21
• VerfasserIn: Sang, Yu,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Chinese philosophy ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Xiong Shili 熊十力(1885-1968) was one of the most important Chinese philosophers of the twentieth century, and a founding figure of the modern New Confucian school of philosophy. At the core of his metaphysics is one of the key conceptual polarities in traditional Chinese philosophy: Reality ( ti 體) an...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Objectives of the Study
• 2 Methodology of the Study
• 3 Significance of the Study
• 4 Chapter Outlines
• 5 Xiong’s Biographical Information and Its Historical Context
• 1 The Philosophical Background to the Development of Xiong’s Ti-yong Metaphysics
• 1 The Formation and Development of the Ti-yong Conceptual Polarity in Chinese Philosophical History
• 2 Xiong’s Reflections on the Ontological and the Phenomenal before 1920
• 3 A Dispute Concerning Reality and Function in the Early Twentieth Century
• 4 Concluding Remarks
• 2 Xiong’s Two-level Ti-yong System between 1920 and 1923
• 1 Level 1: Suchness as Reality and Consciousness as Function
• 2 Level 2: Productive Power as Reality and Manifest Activity as Function
• 3 The Influence of Ouyang Jingwu’s Ti-yong Perspective
• 4 Concluding Remarks
• 3 The Modification of Xiong’s Conception of Reality and Function between 1923 and 1927
• 1 The 1926 Weishixue Gailun
• 2 Weishi Lun
• 3 The Structure and Main Arguments of This Chapter
• 4 Xiong’s Understanding of Ti-yong in the 1926 Weishixue Gailun
• 5 Xiong’s Understanding of Ti-yong in His Weishi Lun
• 6 Concluding Remarks
• 7 Appendix: A Clarification of the Period Xiong Composed the Weishi Lun
• 4 The Development of Xiong’s Conception of Reality and Function between 1927 and 1937
• 1 Whether or Not Sentient Beings Share the Same Reality
• 2 The Development of Xiong’s Understanding of Reality
• 3 The Relationship between Reality and Function
• 4 Concluding Remarks
• Conclusion
• 1 A Review of Xiong’s Changing Understanding of Reality and Function between 1920 and 1937
• 2 Why is Xiong’s Philosophy of Reality and Function Unique?
• 3 Why Did Xiong Continue to Modify and Develop His Conception of Reality and Function?
• Works Cited
• Index.