One and Many: A Comparative Study of Plato's Philosophy and Daoism Represented by Ge Hong 9780824861186

Is the world one or many? Ji Zhang revisits this ancient philosophical question from the modern perspective of comparati

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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: “One and Many” as an Ontological Problem
Part one
Textual Studies
Chapter 1. Ge Hong’s Doctrine of Xuan Dao
Chapter 2. Plato’s Answer to the Pre-Socratic Debate
Chapter 3. Ge Hong’s Preservation of the One
Chapter 4. Plato’s Doctrine of Forms
Chapter 5. Two Forms of Enlightenment
Chapter 6. Ge Hong’s Doctrine of Immortal Beings
Part Two
Comparative Ontology
Chapter 7. Nothing
Chapter 8. The One
Chapter 9. The Many
Conclusion: Comparative Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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