The Book of Changes Revisited from the Perspective of the Process Philosophy

Philosophy and Culture 34 (7):103-114 (2007)
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EDAW is the basic principle "Shengshengbuyi", that no termination of the creative process. Book of Tai Chi and the creator is a gentleman. Tai Chi to create a gossip, so as to create a timeless object, but also to create a body that exists in reality or the reality of the situation. The real existence of the body or the situation for a gentleman who is "like." As is the unity of certainty and uncertainty. Expression of the dynamic principles of dry, Kun expressed a conservation principle, the combination is to create things. The first is to set creative gentleman hexagrams. Intake process is the process of setting Gua. Located outside the two intake, one reality of the situation of the intake, also known as substance intake; the second is the concept of intake, that is, eternal objects intake, through a diagram of the main - the main intake and the intake into the material reality of the situation as a combination, the images of that one, resulting in some kind of value, that is good and bad fortune. However, this value is the potential to be the subject of the hexagram through a re-creation, that gentleman's moral efforts to achieve or avoid. Therefore, the gentleman is not only to set the creative process diagram, but also because of his practice to create. The above interpretation that: Whitehead's process philosophy is the capacity of the United States the value of metaphysics, the creative principle is the creation of aesthetic value. EDAW metaphysics of moral metaphysics, the creative principle is the perfection of creation, the so-called perfection, is the unity of morality and happiness, therefore, EDAW is Kant's moral and happy antinomy of practical solutions. The principle of Change is the endless process of creativity. The subjects in the Book of Change are tai chi and the gentlemen. The tai chi creates the eight kuas, and thus creates the eternal objects, as well as the actual entity or the actual occasion , which for the gentlemen are the hsiangs. The hsiangs are the unity of certainty and uncertainty. The kua of Qian signifies the principle of movement, while the kua of Kun the principle of conservation. The two aspects combine together and create all the things in the world. The creativity of the gentlemen is firstly to set the kua. The process of setting a kua is also the process of prehension. There are two kinds of prehension: one is the prehension of the real occasion, or the physical prehension; the other is the prehension of the eight kuas, or the conceptual prehension. By setting a kua, the hsiang of a kua is to be produced, which symbolizes a kind of value, ie good or evil, fortune or misfortune, but which is only the potential value, and won't become the fact without a gentleman's moral efforts. And therefore, the creativity of the gentlemen lies not only on the process of setting a kua, but also his practice. The above understanding of change also proves that Whitehead's process philosophy is a kind of metaphysics with an aesthetic value, and its principle of creativity is the creation of the aesthetic value. The metaphysics of change is also the metaphysics of the moral value, the principle of which is the creation of the ultimate goodness, which means the unity of morality and happiness. In this sense, the principle of change is the real settlement of the Kant's antinomy of morality and happiness

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