The Great Virtue of Heaven and Earth: deep ecology in the Yi Jing
this paper aims to present a connection between I Ching and the human interests, natural patterns, human creativity, and the natural creative
process of change
one of the targets of this paper is to broaden the boundaries of deep ecology and take it back to the public's view by characterizing it as a philosophical way to go through
Deep ecology claims that all living things are born to be equal, and both have the right to live and flourish, whereas Self-realization is a foundational ethical value to take its value for human beings as a standard to measure species' value or the natural environment state in given areas
the I Ching as one of the "five scriptures 五经" of the earliest Chinese religious canon, has been widely discussed over the two thousand years in East Asia
the current Chinese academia arose an I Ching frenzy
"Deep ecology", a term to describe both environmental philosophy and political movement
Self-realization, a term to describe a fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one's character or personality
"Ten Wings 十翼", a collection of commentaries to the Book of Changes
Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930), German translator
James Legge (1815-97), English translator
terms
figure
main points
I noticed that the author is focusing on the deconstruction of the terminologies, which is good for me to have a deeper understanding
the purpose of this paper is unusual, it tries to provide a hint to the correspondence rather than points out their perspective of I Ching, which, I think is more objective for the readers to explain the I Ching
I think this paper intersect with philosophy concepts and terminology to illustrate or explain its idea, such as theocentric and biocentric, to make its content be more interactive with other fields of study
reflections
David Landis Barnhill and Roger S. Gottlieb, "Introduction," in Landis and Gottlieb, eds., Deep Ecology and World Religions New Essays on Sacred Grounds (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001), 6.
evidence
Arne Næss, "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary," Inquiry (Oslo) 16 (1973), 95-100; reprinted in George Sessions, ed., Deep Ecology for the Twenty-first Century (Boston: Shambhala, 1995), 151-155
Tony Xu IHRTLUHC 2/27/2022
(From 1738 to now)
C. G. Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Arne Naess (1912-2009), a Norwegian philosopher
G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven, and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Chinese map in 18th century