The Non-Hierarchical Way from Yijing to Jeongyeok

A New Paradigm for East Meeting West

Young Woon Ko (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7392-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines the paradoxical structure of Yijing known as the Book of Changes—a structure that promotes in a non-hierarchical way the harmony and transformation of opposites. Because the non-hierarchical model is not limited to the East Asian tradition, it will be considered in relation to ideas developed in the West, including Carl Jung's archetypal psychology, Georg Cantor's Diagonal Theorem, Rene Girard's mimetic desire, and Alfred North Whitehead's process thought. By critically reviewing the numerical and symbolic structures of Yijing, the author introduces Kim Ilbu's Jeongyeok (The Book of Right Changes) and demonstrates that he intensifies the correlation between opposites to overcome any hierarchical system implied by the Yijing. Both the Yijing and the Jeongyeok are textual sources for kindling a discussion about the Divine conceived in Eastern and Western philosophical-theological traditions quite differently. While the non-theistic aspects of the Ultimate feature prominently in Yijing, Jeongyeok extends them to a theistic issue by bringing the notion of Sangjae, the Supreme Lord, which can lead to a fruitful dialogue for understanding the dipolar characteristics of the divine reality—personal and impersonal. The author considers their contrast that has divided Eastern and Western religious belief systems, to be transformational and open to a wider perspective of the divine conception in the process of change.

Young Woon Ko is professor of religious studies at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio.

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List of Tables

Introduction

Chapter One: The Historical Background and Structure of the Yijing

Chapter Two: Change and Creativity in the Cosmology of the Yijing

Chapter Three: The Problem of Paradox and Creativity in the Language of the Yijing

Chapter Four: Jung’s Archetypal Psychology and Yijing on the Theory of Synchronicity

Chapter Five: Shao Yong’s Yijing Diagrams and Cantor’s Diagonal Theorem

Chapter Six: The Topological Paradigm of the Yijing and the Jeongyeok as a Correction

Chapter Seven: The Core Principle of the Jeongyeok

Chapter Eight: Rene Girard’s Mimetic Desire and the Problem of Directionality

Chapter Nine: The Divine Personality-Impersonality and Interreligious Relations

Chapter Ten: From Yijing to Jeongyeok and East-West Dialogue

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-4985-7392-4 / 1498573924
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-7392-4 / 9781498573924
Zustand	Neuware