{"product_id":"living-chinese-philosophy-zoetology-as-first-philosophy-hardcover","title":"Living Chinese Philosophy: Zoetology as First Philosophy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoger T. Ames\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLiving Chinese Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology (\"the science of being in itself\") with classical Chinese \"zoetology\" (\"the art of living\"), which is made explicit in the \u003ci\u003eYijing\u003c\/i\u003e 易經 or \u003ci\u003eBook of Changes\u003c\/i\u003e. Parmenides, Plato, and Aristotle give us a substance ontology grounded in \"being \u003ci\u003equa\u003c\/i\u003e being\" or \"being \u003ci\u003eper se\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eto on he on\u003c\/i\u003e) that guarantees a permanent and unchanging subject as the substratum for the human experience. This substratum or essence includes its purpose for being (\u003ci\u003etelos\u003c\/i\u003e) and defines the \"what-it-means-to-be-a-thing-of-this-kind\" (\u003ci\u003eeidos\u003c\/i\u003e) of any particular thing, thus setting a closed, exclusive boundary and the strict identity necessary for a particular thing to be \"this\" and not \"that.\" In the \u003ci\u003eBook of Changes\u003c\/i\u003e, we find a vocabulary that makes explicit cosmological assumptions that are a stark alternative to this substance ontology. It also provides the interpretive context for the canonical texts by locating them within a holistic, organic, and ecological worldview. To provide a meaningful contrast with this fundamental assumption of \u003ci\u003eon\u003c\/i\u003e or \"being,\" we might borrow the Greek notion of \u003ci\u003ezoe\u003c\/i\u003e or \"life\" and create the neologism \"\u003ci\u003ezoe\u003c\/i\u003e-tology\" as \"the art of living\" (\u003ci\u003eshengshenglun\u003c\/i\u003e 生生論). This cosmology begins from \"living\" (\u003ci\u003esheng\u003c\/i\u003e 生) itself as the motive force behind change and gives us a world of boundless \"becomings\" not \"things\" that \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e but \"events\" that are \u003ci\u003ehappening\u003c\/i\u003e, a contrast between an ontological conception of human \"beings\" and a process conception of what the author calls human \"becomings.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 389\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375113519282,"sku":"9781438499536","price":169.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/08a0b89682b3c651e4498c2fb2c00ad4.webp?v=1777685139","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/living-chinese-philosophy-zoetology-as-first-philosophy-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}