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One and Many : A Comparative Study of Plato's Philosophy and Daoism Represented by Ge Hong / Jiayan Zhang.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative PhilosophyPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 53 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824835545
  • 9780824861186
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181/.114 23
LOC classification:
  • BD395 .Z43 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "One and Many" as an Ontological Problem -- Part one -- Textual Studies -- Chapter 1. Ge Hong's Doctrine of Xuan Dao -- Chapter 2. Plato's Answer to the Pre-Socratic Debate -- Chapter 3. Ge Hong's Preservation of the One -- Chapter 4. Plato's Doctrine of Forms -- Chapter 5. Two Forms of Enlightenment -- Chapter 6. Ge Hong's Doctrine of Immortal Beings -- Part Two -- Comparative Ontology -- Chapter 7. Nothing -- Chapter 8. The One -- Chapter 9. The Many -- Conclusion: Comparative Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- SOCIETY FOR ASIAN AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY MONOGRAPH SERIES
Summary: Is the world one or many? Ji Zhang revisits this ancient philosophical question from the modern perspective of comparative studies. His investigation stages an intellectual exchange between Plato, founder of the Academy, and Ge Hong, who systematized Daoist belief and praxis. Zhang not only captures the tension between rational Platonism and abstruse Daoism, but also creates a bridge between the two.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "One and Many" as an Ontological Problem -- Part one -- Textual Studies -- Chapter 1. Ge Hong's Doctrine of Xuan Dao -- Chapter 2. Plato's Answer to the Pre-Socratic Debate -- Chapter 3. Ge Hong's Preservation of the One -- Chapter 4. Plato's Doctrine of Forms -- Chapter 5. Two Forms of Enlightenment -- Chapter 6. Ge Hong's Doctrine of Immortal Beings -- Part Two -- Comparative Ontology -- Chapter 7. Nothing -- Chapter 8. The One -- Chapter 9. The Many -- Conclusion: Comparative Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- SOCIETY FOR ASIAN AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY MONOGRAPH SERIES

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Is the world one or many? Ji Zhang revisits this ancient philosophical question from the modern perspective of comparative studies. His investigation stages an intellectual exchange between Plato, founder of the Academy, and Ge Hong, who systematized Daoist belief and praxis. Zhang not only captures the tension between rational Platonism and abstruse Daoism, but also creates a bridge between the two.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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