Cosmo-Metaphysics: The Origin of the Universe in Aristotelian and Chinese Philosophy.
This essay compares Greek and Chinese conceptions of the origin of the world based on the concept of cosmo-metaphysics, by which I mean a philosophical scheme that addresses at once the law of the universe and the primary cause of substance or being. In regarding God or the first mover as both the c...
| Publicado en: | Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 465 - 483 |
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