Chinese Philosophy. Paul Carus

History of Chinese Philosophy Overview of Chinese Philosophy

Pre-Confucian China Although there is evidence of advanced civilization in China in very ancient times, actual recorded history begins with the Shang dynasty, in the fourteenth century B.C.E. Available evidence indicates that this was an advanced civilization. For example, art from this period is quite sophisticated, even according to modern standards. This dynasty ended with the invasion by mo...

Remarks on the philosophy of mathematics ( 1969 ) Paul

When we compare mathematics with logic in regard to the role assigned to these two domains of knowledge within philosophical thinking, we find a disagreement among philosophers. For some logic is singled out; for them, logic in the broader sense is the λóγoς, that what is rational, and logic in the narrower sense is the inventory of elementary insights which should lie beneath all consideration...

Basic Philosophy: an Old Chinese Poem Says

This essay grew from a talk I gave on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Chinese Mathematical Society. I dedicate the lecture to the memory of my teacher S. S. Chern who had passed away half a year before (December 2004). During my graduate studies, I was rather free in picking research topics. I [724] worked on fundamental groups of manifolds with non-positive curvature. But in ...

Philosophy and humanism. Renaissance essays in honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller

OWSEI TEMKIN, The doubleface ofJanus and other essays in the history ofmedicine, No-one can deny that Owsei Temkin is now the world's most distinguished historian of medicine. Who else in their writings can cover the whole span of medical history from pre-Greek Antiquity to the twentieth century with authority, flair, and impeccable scholarship? Which medically qualified historian of medicine h...

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