Culture, Philosophy, and Chinese Medicine: Viennese Lectures

ISBN-13: 9783631619810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 399 str.

Fengli Lan

Opis

Chinese medicine is a culturally dependent art of healing deeply rooted in the culture and philosophy of the country it originated from: China. This book has three independent but progressive parts, each bearing the title of one of the three courses taught by the author as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vienna University, in the 2010-2011 winter semester, namely: Overview of Chinese Culture through Chinese Characters, Fundamental Concepts of Classical Chinese Philosophy and The Importance of Metaphors in Chinese Medicine, which are in the fields of philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and intercultural philosophy, aiming to reveal the essence of philosophy of Chinese language, classical Chinese philosophy and Chinese medicine within the context of a global, multicultural background. This book sums up the author s research outcome of the last few years in an area of study on culture, philosophy and Chinese medicine which has been too often misunderstood or insufficiently emphasized."

Spis treści

Contents: Six Categories of Chinese Graphs - Evolution of the Scripts: From Oracle-Bone Inscription to Regular Script - Classical Chinese Thinking Ways Residing in Chinese Characters - The Prospect of Chinese Characters - Western Scientific Thinking Ways Implied in Phonetic Writing - The World View of Chinese Culture - Key to Understand Chinese Culture and Philosophy - Worship of Thunder and Lightening: SHEN & RU - Reflections of Philosophy of Chinese Medicine in Chinese Characters - Intellectual Flowering in Early China: The «Hundred Schools of Thought» - Backgrounds of Classical Chinese Philosophy - Confucianism and Its Influences on Chinese Medicine - Taoist School and Its Influences on Chinese Medicine - The Yin-Yang Theory - Contemplating «Zhong Yi» - Cultural Differences between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine - The Metaphorizing Process & the Way to Form Metaphors in Chinese Medicine - Metaphorizing: The Way to Bridge The Book of Changes and Chinese Medicine - Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Understand the Human Being - Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Understand and Modernize Chinese Herbal Medicine - Number Metaphors for Constructing the Theoretical System of Chinese Medicine - Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Develop Chinese Medicine - Etymology-Based Literal Translation Approach and Strangification: Efficient Methods for Successful Intercultural Communications.

O autorze

Fengli Lan is associate professor for applied linguistics and Chinese Medicine at the Foreign Language Teaching Center at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her research fields include Chinese Medicine, applied linguistics, and the philosophy of science, esp. intercultural and translation studies on Chinese Medicine.