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The provided passages do not directly state what questions remain unanswered.
However, the passages indicate that the exploration of the concept of Li, as presented in the book "Beyond Oneness and Difference," raises questions about the most basic building blocks of our thinking [2]. This is due to the term's seemingly conflicting implications, such as oneness and differentiation, the knowable and what transcends knowledge, the good and the transcendence of good and bad, and order and omnipresence [2]. The book examines these implications as they develop in Neo-Daoist metaphysics and Chinese Buddhism, eventually becoming foundational to Neo-Confucianism [2]. The scope of Brook Ziporyn's interrogation extends to the "unsuspected range of human thinking" on fundamental categories like ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics [1, 2].
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From the book
Ziporyn's interrogation goes beyond analysis to reveal the unsuspected range of human thinking on these most fundamental categories of ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Categories: Philosophy Pages: 434 Snippet: In the present volume, Brook Ziporyn goes on to examine the implications of Li as they develop in Neo-Daoist metaphysics and in Chinese Buddhism, ultimately becoming foundational to Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism, the orthodox ...
Title: Beyond Oneness and Difference by Brook Ziporyn Description: Beyond Oneness and Difference considers the development of one of the key concepts of Chinese intellectual history, Li. A grasp of the strange history of this term and its seemingly conflicting implications—as oneness and differentiation, as the knowable and as what transcends knowledge, as the good and as the transcendence of good and bad, as order and as omnipresence—raises questions about the most basic building blocks of our thinking. This exploration began in the book's companion volume, Ironies of Oneness and…