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Buch
Titel:
Theoretical knowledge in the Mohist Canon
Enthält:
1. Introduction to the Mohist CanonThe Mohist Canon and historical epistemologyThe text and its tradition: BackgroundThe text and its tradition: Reactions to the breakdown of world orderThe text and its tradition: The MohistsThe text and its tradition: Modern receptionStructure and transmission of the text2. The Mohist Canon and alternative origins of theoretical scienceStructure and theoretical character of the scientific sections in the Mohist CanonTheoretical knowledge in the Mohist Canon: Foundations and elementary structuresTheoretical knowledge in the Mohist Canon: Corporeal extensionTheoretical knowledge in the Mohist Canon: Images and weightThe place of Mohist theoretical knowledge in a global history of science3. Text and TranslationEpistemological foundations, A 1-A 6Definition of force, A 21Spatial and temporal contingency and inevitability, A 40-51Corporeal extension ("Geometry"), A 52-A 69Model and duplicate, A 70, A 71Spatial and temporal contingency and inevitability-Reprise, B 13-B 16Shadows and mirror images ("Optics"), B 17-B 24Vertical tendency of weights ("Mechanics"), B 25a-B 29Mechanical and temporal bases for judgment, B 52 - B 53Spatial and temporal paradoxes, and spatiotemporal and modular correspondences,B 60-B 65Sets of indeterminate or unknown extent, B 73 - B 754. Lexical Appendix, A 76 - A 87
Beschreibung:
This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is aimed at historians of science, of knowledge and of philosophy, and generally at readers interested in these topics from an intercultural perspective and particularly with respect to China