Things, order, and the resurgence of contingency: Xiong Bolong xiong bo long (1617–1670) and his Wuhe ji wu he ji
Things, order, and the resurgence of contingency: Xiong Bolong 熊伯龍 (1617–1670) and his Wuhe ji 無何集
In the traditional Chinese conception, ‘things’ (wu wu) serve as the fundamental ‘components’ of order. Moreover, it is through things and their changes that humans can grasp moral and political norms based on the notion of resonance (ganying gan ying). This implies that human society and the world...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Asian philosophy
Year: 2024, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-86 |
| Further subjects: | B
things (wu wu)
B Wang Chong B resonance (ganying gan ying) B Wuhe ji B Contingency B Xiong Bolong |
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| Summary: | In the traditional Chinese conception, ‘things’ (wu wu) serve as the fundamental ‘components’ of order. Moreover, it is through things and their changes that humans can grasp moral and political norms based on the notion of resonance (ganying gan ying). This implies that human society and the world of things are necessarily interconnected. In opposition to this view of order Xiong Bolong xiong bo long (1617–1670) in his work Wuhe ji wu he ji (Collected Passages on Being without Causes) critiqued the notion of resonance and arrived at a more ‘disenchanted’ approach to ‘things’ by incorporating the idea of contingency from Wang Chong’ s wang chong (27–c. 97) philosophical thought. However, Xiong’ s view of order full of contingency does not entirely diverge from the traditional mainstream Chinese view, because in his world of thought, a belief in the underlying necessity of a perfect order within the holistic arrangement of myriad things including humans remained. In the traditional Chinese conception, ‘things’ (wu 物) serve as the fundamental ‘components’ of order. Moreover, it is through things and their changes that humans can grasp moral and political norms based on the notion of resonance (ganying 感應). This implies that human society and the world of things are necessarily interconnected. In opposition to this view of order Xiong Bolong 熊伯龍 (1617–1670) in his work Wuhe ji 無何集 (Collected Passages on Being without Causes) critiqued the notion of resonance and arrived at a more ‘disenchanted’ approach to ‘things’ by incorporating the idea of contingency from Wang Chong’s 王充 (27–c. 97) philosophical thought. However, Xiong’s view of order full of contingency does not entirely diverge from the traditional mainstream Chinese view, because in his world of thought, a belief in the underlying necessity of a perfect order within the holistic arrangement of myriad things including humans remained. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2024.2288404 |
