{"product_id":"the-primary-way-philosophy-of-yijing-9781438479286","title":"The Primary Way: Philosophy of Yijing","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Primary Way\u003c\/i\u003e, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng synthesizes his lifetime of work on the \u003ci\u003eYijing\u003c\/i\u003e, also known as the \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eBook of Changes\u003c\/i\u003e. Cheng offers a systematic engagement with the classic Chinese text as a philosophy that is still valuable and relevant today. In contemporary philosophical terms, Cheng has developed the ontological hermeneutics of the \u003ci\u003eYijing\u003c\/i\u003e as well as its philosophical methodology of symbolic reference in a holistic and onto-generative system of trigrams and hexagrams. The book is organized around eight themes that illuminate Cheng's interpretation of the \u003ci\u003eYijing\u003c\/i\u003e as a philosophy for creative human action and transformation. He demonstrates how the philosophy of change in the \u003ci\u003eYijing\u003c\/i\u003e embodies early Chinese ontology, cosmology, epistemology, and virtue ethics in the interpretation of divinatory judgments. Cheng's work shows how the philosophy of change contains a vision of humanity as creatively related to heaven and earth, and how it gives positive meaning to any change as part of a ceaseless creativity. With this understanding, it enables humanity to develop its potential as a partner of heaven and earth.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50380028281106,"sku":"9781438479286","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9bca0321-6bcf-44ef-91ed-3b6c98cda3cf.jpg?v=1728673497","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-primary-way-philosophy-of-yijing-9781438479286","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}