The Primary Way: Philosophy of Yijing

Chung-ying Cheng

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The Primary Way

Philosophy of Yijing

Chung-ying Cheng
Preface by: Robert Cummings Neville and Robert Cummings Neville

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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A unique work on the underlying ontology, cosmology, and moral philosophy of the Yijing.

In The Primary Way, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng synthesizes his lifetime of work on the Yijing, also known as the I Ching or Book of Changes. Cheng offers a systematic engagement with the classic Chinese text as a philosophy that is still valuable and relevant today. In contemporary philosophical terms, Cheng has developed the ontological hermeneutics of the Yijing as well as its philosophical methodology of symbolic reference in a holistic and onto-generative system of trigrams and hexagrams. The book is organized around eight themes that illuminate Cheng's interpretation of the Yijing as a philosophy for creative human action and transformation. He demonstrates how the philosophy of change in the Yijing embodies early Chinese ontology, cosmology, epistemology, and virtue ethics in the interpretation of divinatory judgments. Cheng's work shows how the philosophy of change contains a vision of humanity as creatively related to heaven and earth, and how it gives positive meaning to any change as part of a ceaseless creativity. With this understanding, it enables humanity to develop its potential as a partner of heaven and earth.

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Contributor: Chung-ying Cheng Chung-ying Cheng is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. His many books include New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy and The Primary Way: Philosophy of Yijing, both also published by SUNY Press. --- Contributor: Robert Cummings Neville Robert Cummings Neville is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University. His many books include Metaphysics of Goodness: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization, also published by SUNY Press.

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"This book will be an extremely valuable contribution to the Anglophone world's understanding of Chinese thought. Its riches are both philosophical and expository, and I believe it will find a lot of use in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms, since in addition to its philosophical synthesis it provides a fine introduction to the often baffling symbolic system and methodology of the text, as well as its history and its ambiguities. It is sinologically solid as well as accessible to educated readers from other disciplines who may wish to find out what the Yi is all about. I think this will be the go-to book on the topic for many years." — Brook Ziporyn, author of Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents

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Foreword
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Introducing the Yijing (易经)
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Yijing as Creative Inception of Chinese Philosophy
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Interpreting a Paradigm of Change in Chinese Philosophy
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Inquiring into the Primary Model
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Philosophical Significance of Guan
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Yin-Yang (阴阳) Way of Onto-Cosmic Thinking and Philosophy of the Yi (易)
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On Harmony as Transformation
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Zhouyi (周易) and the Philosophy of Wei (Positions 位)
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Li (理) and Qi (气) in the Yijing
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On the Yijing as a Symbolic System of Integrated Communication
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On Zhu Xi’s Integration of Yili (义理) and Xiangshu (象数) in the Study of the Yijing
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On Timeliness (Shizhong 时中) in the Analects and the Yijing
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Chinese Glossary
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English Key Terms
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Notes
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A Bibliography of the Yijing in Chinese
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A Bibliography of the Yijing in Western Languages
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Works Cited
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Index
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Asian Studies : Chinese Religion and Philosophy; Asian Studies : Confucianism; Philosophy : Comparative Philosophy; Philosophy : Philosophy

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The Primary Way

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introducing the Yijing (易经)

Yijing as Creative Inception of Chinese Philosophy

Interpreting a Paradigm of Change in Chinese Philosophy

Inquiring into the Primary Model

Philosophical Significance of Guan

Yin-Yang (阴阳) Way of Onto-Cosmic Thinking and Philosophy of the Yi (易)

On Harmony as Transformation

Zhouyi (周易) and the Philosophy of Wei (Positions 位)

Li (理) and Qi (气) in the Yijing

On the Yijing as a Symbolic System of Integrated Communication

On Zhu Xi’s Integration of Yili (义理) and Xiangshu (象数) in the Study of the Yijing

On Timeliness (Shizhong 时中) in the Analects and the Yijing

Chinese Glossary

English Key Terms

Notes

A Bibliography of the Yijing in Chinese

A Bibliography of the Yijing in Western Languages

Works Cited

Index

The Primary Way

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About this book

Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introducing the Yijing (易经)

Yijing as Creative Inception of Chinese Philosophy

Interpreting a Paradigm of Change in Chinese Philosophy

Inquiring into the Primary Model

Philosophical Significance of Guan

Yin-Yang (阴阳) Way of Onto-Cosmic Thinking and Philosophy of the Yi (易)

On Harmony as Transformation

Zhouyi (周易) and the Philosophy of Wei (Positions 位)

Li (理) and Qi (气) in the Yijing

On the Yijing as a Symbolic System of Integrated Communication

On Zhu Xi’s Integration of Yili (义理) and Xiangshu (象数) in the Study of the Yijing

On Timeliness (Shizhong 时中) in the Analects and the Yijing

Chinese Glossary

English Key Terms

Notes

A Bibliography of the Yijing in Chinese

A Bibliography of the Yijing in Western Languages

Works Cited

Index

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