Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific ThoughtCambridge University Press, 3 de gen. 1956 - 696 pàgines The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we are brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese middle ages. The author opens his discussion by considering the remote and pictographic origins of words fundamental in scientific discourse, and then sets forth the influential doctrines of the Two Forces and the Five Elements. Subsequently he writes of the important sceptical tradition, the effects of Buddhist thought, and the Neo-Confucian climax of Chinese naturalism. Last comes a discussion of the conception of Laws of Nature in China and the West. |
Continguts
THE TAO CHIA TAOISTS AND TAOISM | 33 |
3 | 73 |
THE MO CHIA MOHISTS AND THE MING | 165 |
b Scientific thought in the Mohist Canon p | 171 |
c The philosophy of Kungsun Lung p | 185 |
e Logic formal or dialectical? p | 198 |
THE FA CHIA LEGALISTS | 204 |
THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS OF CHINESE | 216 |
f The Phenomenalists and Wang Chhungs struggle against | 378 |
h The sceptical tradition in later centuries p | 386 |
BUDDHIST THOUGHT | 396 |
CHIN AND THANG TAOISTS AND SUNG | 432 |
3 The study of universal pattern the concepts Chhi | 472 |
4 Evolutionary Naturalism in a cyclical setting | 485 |
e NeoConfucianism and the golden period of natural | 493 |
SUNG AND MING IDEALISTS AND | 506 |
c The school of Naturalists YinYang Chia Tsou Yen | 232 |
d Enumeration orders and symbolic correlations p | 253 |
e The theory of the two fundamental forces p | 273 |
f Correlative thinking and its significance Tung Chung | 279 |
204 | 320 |
THE PSEUDOSCIENCES AND | 346 |
b Sceptical trends in Chou and early Han times p | 365 |
d Centrifugal cosmogony p | 371 |
e The new or experimental philosophy Huang Lü | 516 |
d Stages in the MesopotamianEuropean differentiation | 533 |
e The acceptance of the legislative metaphor in Renaissance | 539 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIES | 585 |
Books and journal articles in Western Languages p | 616 |
655 | |
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