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Concepts of nature : a Chinese-European cross-cultural perspective /
This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world’s leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics ;
v. 1. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview / Mark Elvin
- Introductions / Mark Elvin
- The genesis of philosophy in the history of mind: a cross-cultural comparison between classical Greece and China / Günter Dux
- The universe as cosmos: on the ontology of the Greek world-image / Julián Pacho
- The notion of causality in Aristotle and the medieval philosophy of nature: a developmental approach / Ulrich Wenzel
- Cosmology and concepts of nature in traditional China / John B. Henderson
- On nature and culture in Zhou China / Heiner Roetz
- Towards a conceptual history of some concepts of nature in classical Chinese: Zì Rán And Zì Rán Zhī Lĭ / Christoph Harbsmeier
- Mathematics, nature and cosmological inquiry in traditional China / Karine Chemla
- When Shen Gua encountered the 'natural world': a preliminary discussion on the Mengxi Bitan and the concept of nature / Fu Daiwie
- Becoming acquainted with nature from the Odes: sidelights on the study of the flora and fauna in Song Dynasty's Shijing (classic of Odes) scholarship / Achim Mittag
- Concepts of nature in traditional Chinese materia medica and botany (sixteenth to seventeenth century) / Georges Métailié
- The investigation of things (Gewu), natural studies (Gezhixue), and evidental studies (Kaozhengxue) in late imperial China, 1600-1800 / Benjamin A. Elman
- Personal luck: why premodern China--probably-- did not develop probalistic thinking / Mark Elvin
- "That which soaks and descends becomes salty": the concept of nature in traditional Chinese salt production / Hans Ulrich Vogel
- The myriad things: random thoughts on nature in China and the West / Wolfgang Kubin
- On the relationship between man and nature in China / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer