The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology

Peterson, Willard J.; Henderson, John

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“…Their interest was on what is now called ''correlative'' thinking (Graham, 1986;Henderson, 1984;Needham, 1954) or ''appositional'' information processing (Bogen et al, …”

Section: The I Ching: a Case-study Of Dual Symbolic Classificationmentioning

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The Eight Trigrams of the Chinese I Ching and the Eight Primary Emotions

TenHouten

Wen

2001

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Durkheim and Mauss, in Primitive Classification, concluded that the emotions play a causal role in the history of dual symbolic classification systems, but could not test this intuitive speculation because they saw a classification of the emotions as impossible. In this paper a portion of Plutchik's psychoevolutionary model of the primary emotions are assumed to be valid and are then investigated through analysis of one of their three case studies of primitive classification, that of classification in ancient China, where their emphasis was on the eight “trigrams” or “powers” that they saw arranged in a “divinatory compass.” The trigrams are three‐line components of the “hexagrams,” the six‐line figures that are interpreted as master signs in I Ching divination rituals. Using Plutchik's psychoevolutionary classification of the emotions as a basis of comparison, especially his model of the primary emotions as adaptive reactions to the positive and negative experiences of four existential problems – identity, temporality/reproduction, hierarchy, and territoriality – it is found that both trigrams and primary emotions exist as four pairs of opposites. The eight trigrams and eight primary emotions similarly can be seen as adaptive reactions to the four basic problems of life. Through structural analysis, correspondences between the trigrams and the primary emotions are developed, the result being that the primary emotions are structurally isomorphic and very close in first meanings to the primary attributes of the trigrams. Implications of this isomorphism of structure for the development of a social psychology of the emotions are discussed.

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“…Their interest was on what is now called ''correlative'' thinking (Graham, 1986;Henderson, 1984;Needham, 1954) or ''appositional'' information processing (Bogen et al, …”

Section: The I Ching: a Case-study Of Dual Symbolic Classificationmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Eight Trigrams of the Chinese I Ching and the Eight Primary Emotions

TenHouten

Wen

2001

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…This approach is inspired by the dynamic vision of correlative pairs that informs the 阴阳 Yinyang relationship in Chinese culture (Needham 1956, Henderson 1984, Graham, 1986, 1989, Cheng 1997, 2007, Zhou et al 1994. The etymology of the written form of 阴 yin is the side of a mountain in shadow, while the etymology of 阳 yang is the sunny side of the mountain.…”

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‘God’s Real Name is God’

Golden

2009

The Translator

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“…It means that entirely new kinds of things are able to enter the worldalbeit with debate and controversy. They may come from or relate to the anatomical and physiological body, with all its elements and its pathways (Henderson, 1984;Lei, 2014;皮國立, 2006. How does Dr Lee think of that body?…”

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A correlative STS: Lessons from a Chinese medical practice

Lin

Law

2014

Soc Stud Sci

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How might Science and Technology Studies learn more from the intersection between 'Western' and 'other' forms of knowledge? In this article, we use Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's writing on equivocal translation to explore a moment of encounter in a Chinese Medical consultation in Taiwan in which a practitioner hybridizes Chinese Medicine and biomedicine. Our description is symmetrical, but creates a descriptive equivocation in which 'Western' analytical terms are used to describe a 'Chinese' medical reality. Drawing on the history of Chinese Medicine, we argue that the latter is not analytical, but 'correlative' in a specifically 'Chinese' manner that explores patternings, flows, and propensities in local collections of things and symptoms. In particular, it both handles difference without seeking to unearth stable causal mechanisms and absorbs new elements including relevant features of biomedicine. We conclude by briefly considering the scope of a possible post-colonial and 'correlative' STS and show that a 'correlative' description of the same Chinese Medical consultation would differ markedly from one making use of 'Western' analytical assumptions.

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The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology

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The Eight Trigrams of the Chinese I Ching and the Eight Primary Emotions

The Eight Trigrams of the Chinese I Ching and the Eight Primary Emotions

‘God’s Real Name is God’

A correlative STS: Lessons from a Chinese medical practice

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