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Overcoming modernity : synchronicity and image-thinking /

"In Overcoming Modernity, which contains the last writings from Yuasa, the prominent Japanese scholar reconsiders the modern Western paradigm of thinking and in its place proposes a more holistic worldview. Through these explorations, engaging a wide range of Western and east Asian thought, Yua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yuasa, Yasuo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The image-thinking of ancient people, East and West
  • The four archai and the human soul
  • A comparison with the image-thinking in ancient India
  • The Chinese view of nature based on Qi-energy
  • The study of "that which is above form" and metaphysics
  • Logic and being: "what is" and "that it is"
  • The passive understanding of "being"
  • The eternal and the changing
  • The future-direction of ethics and physics
  • Image-thinking and the understanding of "being": the psychological basis of linguistic expression
  • Chinese, Japanese, and Western expressions for "being"
  • The characteristics of expressions in the Chinese language
  • The relation between logic and psychology in the linguistic expressions of the Chinese and Western languages
  • Logic and lived experience
  • The cognition and intuition of living nature
  • What is synchronicity?
  • The overlap between the world of spirit and the world of objects
  • Divination of the Yìjng and its worldview
  • Parapsychology and its meaning
  • Synchronicity and contemporary physics
  • Nature's psychoid nature
  • Synchronicity and the movement of new age science
  • Life and space-time: synchronicity and the psychology of the Yìjng
  • The divination of the Yìjng and the mind-body relation
  • The Yìjng's theory of time
  • The theory of time and the view of nature
  • The traditional views of nature of the East and the West: are space and time separable?
  • Space and the energy immanent in time
  • Synchronicity and spiritualism
  • The birth of the theory of synchronicity
  • A reexamination of the parapsychological disputes
  • "Meaningful coincidence" and human life
  • Space-time and mind-body integration: the resurrection of teleology
  • Contemporary science and Eastern thought
  • Einstein and Bergson
  • Is time an illusion?
  • Ripening time
  • Synchronicity and the collective unconscious
  • What is present: the problem of measurement
  • Methodological reflections on science
  • Physics and metaphysics.