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Overcoming Modernity : Synchronicity and Image-Thinking.

Yuasa, Yasuo.

Overcoming Modernity : Synchronicity and Image-Thinking. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (258 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface -- Part I -- 1. The Image-Thinking of Ancient People, East and West -- THE FOUR ARCHAI AND THE HUMAN SOUL -- A COMPARISON WITH THE IMAGE- THINKING IN ANCIENT I NDIA -- THE CHINESE VIEW OF NATURE BASED ON Qì-Energy [Jap., Ki: ] -- THE STUDY OF "THAT WHICH IS ABOVE FORM"AND METAPHYSICS -- LOGIC AND BEING: "WHAT IS " AND "THAT IT IS " -- THE PASSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF "BEING" (ARI) -- THE ETERNAL AND THE CHANGING -- THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF ETHICS AND PHYSICS -- Translator's Note -- 2. Image-Thinking and the Understanding of "Being" -- The Psychological Basis of Linguistic Expression -- CHINESE, JAPANESE , AND WESTERN EXPRESSIONS* FOR "BEING" -- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPRESSIONS IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE -- THE RELATION BETWEEN LOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGY IN THE L INGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS OFTHE CHINESE AND WESTERN LANGUAGES -- LOGIC AND LIVED EXPERIENCE -- THE COGNITION AND INTUITION OF LIVING NATURE -- Part II -- Translator's Note -- 3. What Is Synchronicity? -- INTRODUCTION -- THE OVERLAP BETWEEN THE WORLD OF SPIRIT AND THE WORLD OF OBJECTS -- DIVINATION OF THE YÌJ Ī NG AND ITS WORLDVIEW -- PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND I TS MEANING -- SYNCHRONICITY AND CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS -- NATURE ' S PSYCHOID NATURE -- SYNCHRONICITY AND THE MOVEMENT OF NEW AGE SCIENCE -- SUMMARY -- POSTSCRIPT (APRIL 2003) -- Translator's Note -- 4. Life and Space-Time: Synchronicity and the Psychology of the Yìjıng -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DIVINATION OF THE YÌJĪNG AND THEMIND-BODY RELATION -- THE YÌJĪNG'S THEORY OF TIME -- THE THEORY OF T IME AND THE V IEW OF NATURE -- THE TRADITIONAL V IEWS OF NATURE OF THE EASTAND THE WEST -- ARE SPACE AND TIME SEPARABLE? -- SPACE AND THE ENERGY IMMANENT IN T IME -- Translator's Note -- 5. Synchronicity and Spiritualism -- THE BIRTH OF THE THEORY OF SYNCHRONICITY. A REEXAMINATION OF THEPARAPSYCHOLOGICAL DISPUTES -- "MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCE" AND HUMAN LIFE -- CONCLUSION -- Part III -- Translator's Note -- 6. Space-Time and Mind-Body Integration: The Resurrection of Teleology -- CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE AND EASTERN THOUGHT -- EINSTEIN AND BERGSON -- IS T IME AN ILLUSION? -- R IPENING T IME -- SYNCHRONICITY AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS -- WHAT IS PRESENT: THE PROBLEM OF MEASUREMENT -- METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON SCIENCE -- PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS -- SUMMARY -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

These last writings by Japanese philosopher Yuasa engage both Western and Eastern thought to reconsider modernity and offer an alternative, more holistic paradigm.

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