Parmenides: On Nature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Rehearsing the Argument 1
4. Chapter 1 Comparative Cultural Hermeneutics as Method
5. Taking Advantage of Our Gadamerian Prejudices 19
6. Comparative Cultural Hermeneutics as Analogical Thinking 24
7. Classical Greek Ontology and Chinese Zoetology: “A Small Stock of Ideas” 26
8. Chapter 2 Unloading the Essentialism Charge
9. Introduction 33
10. Two Philosophers of Culture: Leibniz and Qian Mu 錢穆 38
11. The Value of Thick Cultural Generalizations 42
12. A World Cultural Ecology: Organically One and Many at the Same Time 46
13. Self-Consciously Interpretive Translation 48
14. The Familial Roots of Ecological Language 50
15. Chapter 3 “Taking the Confucian Tradition on Its Own Terms”
16. A Different Understanding of Objectivity 53
17. A Confucian Alternative to the Objective/Subjective Dualism 59
18. Two Alternative Meanings of Objectivity: (1) Truth about a Given Reality or (2) “Trust and Confidence” (xin 信) in Our World-Making Objectives (dao 道) 66
19. Chapter 4 Classical Greek Ontological Thinking
20. Substance Ontology and Its Far-Reaching Implications 75
21. Parmenides: On Nature 77
22. Plato and the Theory of Forms 86
23. First Anticipation 90
24. Second Anticipation 98
25. Third Anticipation 110
26. Fourth Anticipation 116
27. Fifth Anticipation 124
28. Sixth Anticipation 134
29. Seventh Anticipation 144
30. Eighth Anticipation 150
31. Aristotle: Socrates as a Human Being 157
32. Ninth Anticipation 164
33. Aristotle’s Causal Thinking 171
34. Tenth Anticipation 174
35. Plato and Aristotle on Theoria: The Life of Thinking 178
36. Eleventh Anticipation 191
37. Twelfth Anticipation 201
38. Chapter 5 Classical Chinese Zoetological Thinking
39. Zoetology and Its Far-Reaching Implications 207
40. Yi 易 as Shengsheng 生生: Construing Change as Procreative Living 219
41. Zoetology’s Relational Equity as an Alternative to a Foundational Individualism 224
42. Two Modes of Procreative Living: “Derivation” (paisheng 派生) and “Transmutation” (huasheng 化生) 233
43. Zoetology and Its “Self-so-ing” (ziran 自然) Causality 239
44. Zoetology and Its Generative Logic 244
45. Zoetology and the Principle of Individuation 248
46. Chapter 6 In Their Own Words and on Their Own Terms
47. Contemporary China’s Comparative Philosophers 255
48. Zheng Kai 鄭開 260
49. Zhang Xianglong 張祥龍 280
50. Zhao Tingyang 趙汀陽 296
51. Sun Xiangchen 孫向晨 321
52. Epilogue 357
53. Bibliography 365
54. Index 375