Comparative Essays in Early Greek and Chinese Rational Thinking

This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures. Reding develops and defends the bold hypothesis that Greek and Chi

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Jean-Paul Reding

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Contents: Introduction; 'Contradiction is impossible'; The origin of logic in China; Philosophy and geometry in early China; Greek and Chinese categories; Words for atoms - atoms for words: comparative considerations on the origins of atomism in ancient Greece and on the absence of atomism in ancient China; Light and the mirror in Greece and China: elements of comparative metaphorology; 'To be' in Greece and China; Chinese characters and texts; Bibliography; Index.