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Chapter 7 - Science and Civilization in China

The Problem of Chinese Science

from Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

Toby E. Huff
Toby E. Huff
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Chapter 7 outlines the very different philosophy of nature, metaphysical commitments and habits of thought that shaped Chinese natural thinking. Within it there were no laws of nature, no lawgiver, no push-pull causality, all maintained in a closed cyclical unfolding of natural processes, guided by yang and yin, the “Five Evolutive phases,” and energy in the form of chi’. This philosophy of nature was embedded in an entirely different conception of an educational and legal system focused on traditional virtues, ancient wisdom, stylize poetry and calligraphy
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The Rise of Early Modern Science
Islam, China, and the West
 , pp. 203 - 235
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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