Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li

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What questions remain unanswered?

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The provided passages do not specify what questions remain unanswered. The text describes the book's approach to understanding early Chinese thought on fundamental categories of experience, such as oneness and difference, sameness and difference, self and other, and internal and external [1]. It highlights how these concepts, as explored by Confucian and Daoist thinkers, relate to questions of coherence [1]. The passages emphasize the intellectual and experiential expansion gained from engaging with these alternative modes of thinking [2].

While the passages detail the book's content and its aim to broaden horizons by showcasing diverse ways of thinking, they do not offer information regarding specific unanswered questions within the scope of the book's inquiry.

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Title: Ironies of Oneness and Difference by Brook Ziporyn Description: Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the unsuspected range of human thinking on the most basic categories of experience. The way in which early Chinese thinkers approached concepts such as one and many, sameness and difference, self and other, and internal and external stand in stark contrast to the way parallel concepts entrenched in much of modern thinking developed in Greek and European thought. Brook Ziporyn traces the distinctive and surprising philosophical journeys found in the works of the…
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us. The actual inhabitation and mastery of these alternative modes of thinking is an even greater adventure in intellectual and experiential expansion. Categories: Philosophy Pages: 338 Snippet: Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the unsuspected range of human thinking on the most basic categories of experience.
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