It has often been pointed out that the Chinese philosophical tradition as a whole resounds more with process ontologies than object-oriented ones, and a vocabulary for the description of reality as a dynamic plenum is indeed to be found in the Yijing, particularly in the Ten Wings treatises. In this chapter, I am going to have a look at some passages in the “Xici” (or “Dazhuan”) treatise and compare them to certain ideas expressed by Xiong Shili, the founder of New Confucianism, as well as Thomas Nail, one of the proponents of dynamism-based philosophy active at present. In order to do this, I will also introduce a way of analyzing multi-layered Chinese philosophical concepts that relies on the theories of Algirdas Greimas and his “semiotic quadrangle” in particular. As a result, I hope to show that the ontological language of the Yijing prefigures several crucial insights on which varieties of modern and contemporary process philosophy rely.

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The Ideas of Dynamism and Stability in the Yijing and Modern/Contemporary Thought

  • Rein Raud

摘要

It has often been pointed out that the Chinese philosophical tradition as a whole resounds more with process ontologies than object-oriented ones, and a vocabulary for the description of reality as a dynamic plenum is indeed to be found in the Yijing, particularly in the Ten Wings treatises. In this chapter, I am going to have a look at some passages in the “Xici” (or “Dazhuan”) treatise and compare them to certain ideas expressed by Xiong Shili, the founder of New Confucianism, as well as Thomas Nail, one of the proponents of dynamism-based philosophy active at present. In order to do this, I will also introduce a way of analyzing multi-layered Chinese philosophical concepts that relies on the theories of Algirdas Greimas and his “semiotic quadrangle” in particular. As a result, I hope to show that the ontological language of the Yijing prefigures several crucial insights on which varieties of modern and contemporary process philosophy rely.