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008			050809s2006 enk b 001 0 eng d
020			_a1901903788
020			_a9781901903782
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100	1		_aLidin, Olof G., _d1926-
245	1	0	_aFrom Taoism to Einstein : _bKi and Ri in Chinese and Japanese thought : a survey / _cOlof Lidin
260			_aKent : _bGlobal Oriental Ltd., _c2006.
300			_axviii, 263 pages ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [203]-221), glossary, and index
520			_aThis is a survey of Confucian thought, Chinese and Japanese, with a new theme that ends up with a conclusion that links early Taoist philosophy and modern rational thought. Ki emerged first and is the thread that runs through the millennia of Chinese philosophy. Ri was added later in Sung times and, together, ki and ri became the mainstay and core of Chinese beliefs in Sung (960-1279), Ming (1279-1644) and Ching (1644-1911) times. The author takes the view that ki can profitably be compared with European philosophy. In China the ki thread appears as an original 'primal ki' (genki) which is the source of all things and affairs. The search is for the whole. In Greece, and later in Europe, the thinking goes in the opposite direction: it searches for the exact truth in the independent units of the cosmos, the atoms - the truth being found in the part
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Japanese _xHistory
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Chinese _xHistory
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Confucian
650		0	_aQi (Chinese philosophy)
651		0	_aJapan _xCivilization
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