TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vogel,Hans Ulrich
AU  - Dux,Günter
AU  - Elvin,Mark
TI  - Concepts of nature: a Chinese-European cross-cultural perspective 
T2  - Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics,
SN  - 9789004187511
AV  - BD581 .C6654 2010eb
U1  - 113.0951 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, the Netherlands, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Europe
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Nature and civilization
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophie de la nature
KW  - Chine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Études transculturelles
KW  - Nature et civilisation
KW  - Sciences
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - fast
KW  - Natur
KW  - gnd
KW  - Konzeption
KW  - Naturverständnis
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Europa
KW  - Rheine <2000>
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (Hans Ulrich Vogel); ABOUT THIS BOOK: RECONSIDERING A THEORY OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (Günter Dux); List of Contributors; OVERVIEW (Mark Elvin); INTRODUCTIONS (Mark Elvin); THE GENESIS OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE HISTORY OF MIND: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON BETWEEN CLASSICAL GREECE AND CHINA (Günter Dux); THE UNIVERSE AS COSMOS: ON THE ONTOLOGY OF THE GREEK WORLD-IMAGE (Julián Pacho); THE NOTION OF CAUSALITY IN ARISTOTLE AND THE MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH (Ulrich Wenzel); COSMOLOGY AND CONCEPTS OF NATURE IN TRADITIONAL CHINA (John B. Henderson); THE MYRIAD THINGS: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON NATURE IN CHINA AND THE WEST (Wolfgang Kubin)ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE IN CHINA (Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer); INDEX
N2  - A collective masterpiece that illuminates premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with Europe's, thus also reshaping our understanding of the corresponding Western concepts, and using the frequent partial similarities in the context of overall contrasts to define the differences that have been historically critical
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