Abstract

Is that where western philosophy -- What is it to enter (a way of thought)? -- The elsewhere of China -- Thinking before or beside? -- The first sentence -- A first Chinese sentence -- Commentary -- Hebraic entry -- Hellenic entry -- Undoing our alternatives -- Where would the beginning begin? -- Neither God nor myth: what other possibility? -- When myth holds no interest, when God holds no monopoly -- Greek tool/Chinese formulation -- Translation -- Is there still tradition? -- A shift of the truth.