{"product_id":"from-taoism-to-einstein-9781901903782","title":"From Taoism to Einstein","description":"\u003ci\u003eKi\u003c\/i\u003e emerged first and is the thread that runs through the millennia of Chinese philosophy. \u003ci\u003eRi\u003c\/i\u003e was added later in Sung times and, together, \u003ci\u003eki\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eri\u003c\/i\u003e became the mainstay and core of Chinese beliefs in Sun (960-1279), Ming (1279-1644) and Ch’ing (1644-1911) times. In this remarkable and inspirational study, researched over many years, the author takes the view that \u003ci\u003eki\u003c\/i\u003e can profitably be compared with European philosophy. In China, the \u003ci\u003eki\u003c\/i\u003e thread appears as an original ‘primal ki’ (\u003ci\u003egenki\u003c\/i\u003e), 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. The study has three separate but interrelated parts. Part I delineates the \u003ci\u003eki\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eri\u003c\/i\u003e philosophy as it developed in China; Part II presents Confucian study and learning in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868); Part III finishes with conclusions about things East and West and the situation in today’s world. From Taoism to Einstein will have wide appeal to students of Eastern religion and philosophy, as well as students of East Asian history and political science, and Chinese and Japanese studies in general.","brand":"Olof G. Lidin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48310341337339,"sku":"9781901903782","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e99ed109-ba44-439d-9a79-d4d49de3c64f.jpg?v=1774764513","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/from-taoism-to-einstein-9781901903782","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}