An edition of On Chinese body thinking
(1996)
On Chinese Body Thinking
A Cultural Hermeneutic (Philosophy of History and Culture)
by Kuang-ming Wu
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This book uses Western philosophical tradition to make a case for a form of thinking properly associated with ancient China. The book's thesis is that Chinese thinking is concrete rather than formal and abstract, and this is gathered in a variety of ways under the symbol "body thinking". The root of the metaphor is that the human body has a kind of intelligence in its most basic functions. When hungry the body gets food and eats, when tired it sleeps, when amused it laughs.
In free people these things happen instinctively but not automatically.
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On Chinese Body Thinking: A Cultural Hermeneutic (Philosophy of History and Culture)
March 1996, Brill Academic Publishers
Hardcover
in English
9004101500 9789004101500
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