Creativity in the Book of Changes and Process Thought: With Special Reference to Whitehead

Philosophy and Culture 34 (6):53-69 (2007)
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Confucius, the "Ten Wings" like "Easy", of which have to understand clear: "Therefore metaphysical that way, a physical person that the device", "transactions" of the switch are off, is the metaphysical way is also. Under this philosophy, beliefs, contemporary Chinese philosophers, the east side are the United States and Mr. Cheng Shiquan two "transactions" as the source of Chinese Metaphysics, its fundamental principle is to "create of life and life" . They also believe that the Western philosopher Whitehead philosophy and the body closest to the wisdom of ancient trade. And Whitehead, a philosopher of contemporary qualification process, also in his "qualification process and the true occasion" a book that: not the same person at one yuan regardless of "absolute" , or "nervous" is the ultimate, the body of his philosophy are based on "record" of the ultimate ; on this point, he has taken the stance seems more close to some of the ideas of India or China, rather than close to the West or the idea of Europe . This will be based on Mr. Fang Chenger see the hole, to promote Western qualification process thinking in the "record" of issues of cultural exchange and dialogue. Paper, the description of the founding of Minghuaidehai contemporary Western thought and philosophy, for I understand the qualification process, "transaction by" can be used for the contribution, and the "trade through" the people in China developed the doctrine of the universe and the world record three powers of the said instructions were , not by a nervous regardless of ideology and materialism regardless limited qualification process for the Western philosophers should be inspiration. "Ten Wings" attributed to Confucius are the philosophical expositions of the Book of Changes or I Ching. Among them, "Hsitz'u Ch'uan" has once pronounced that "What is metaphysical, supersensible, is Principle or Tao ; whereas what is concrete, sensible, is Material, Artifact, or Ch'i. "Evidently what the authors of the Book of Changes concerned is the metaphysical principle-Tao. Contemporary Chinese philosophers Thome Fang and Shih-chuan Chen following this archaic dictum are convinced that the Book of Changes is the metaphysical fountain of Chinese philosophy and its fundamental notion is "creativity with unceasing generations." They consider AN Whitehead, one of the modern process philosophers, the most appealing to Chinese mind since he has made the concept of "creativity" the major theme of his philosophy. As Whitehead says in his Process and Reality that "In the philosophy of organism this ultimate is termed 'Creativity' ... ... In this general position the philosophy of organism seems to approximate more to some strains of Indian, or Chinese thought, than to western Asiatic, or European, thought. "Following Fang and Chen, the present paper is an attempt to promote the cross-cultural dialogue between the Eastern and Western process thought on the issue of creativity. We believe this can be done by showing that Whitehead's concept of creativity and modern Western process thought, especially Whitehead, are in great help for our understanding the Book of Changes. On the other hand, the philosophy of creativity in the Book of Changes will also help Western process philosophers to see how the view of a creative universe and its organic relation with humankind can be developed from comprehensive synthesis of human experience, untrammeled either by theistic or by materialistic frame of thought

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