Did philosophers have to become fixated on truth?

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 803-824

  Jullien, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

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EID: 40849130026     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341235     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Plato, Phaedrus, trans. Harold North Fowler (Cambridge, Mass., 1982), p. 479 (248b).
2. Heraclitus, Fragments, trans. T. M. Robinson (Toronto, 1987), frag. 57, p. 38.
3. Laozi, para. 2: "Everyone recognizes the beautiful inasmuch as it is beautiful," so (already), "it is ugly"; "everyone recognizes the good inasmuch as it is good," so (already) "it is not-good." See Lao-Tzu's 'Te-Tao Ching,' trans. Robert G. Hendricks (New York, 1989).
4. I Ching, "Great Commentary," A, 5.
5. See The I Ching: The Book of Changes, trans. James Legge (1899; New York, 1969).
6. Hesiod, The Theogony, in The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis, trans. J. Banks (London, 1901), p. 3.
7. Confucius, Analects, XVI, 19; hereafter abbreviated A.
8. See Confucius, Confucian Analects, in The Chinese Classics, trans, and ed. Legge, 7 vols. (Hong Kong, 1861), 1:1-219.
9. Mencius, II A 2; trans. Legge, under the title The Works of Mencius, in The Chinese Classics, vol. 2; hereafter abbreviated M.
10. Parmenides of Elea, Fragments, trans. David Gallop (Toronto, 1984), frag. 2, 11. 3, 4, p. 55.
11. See Mo-tsucombining breve, A 44, 50;
12. trans. A. C. Graham, under the title Canons and Explanations, in Graham, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science (Beijing, 1978), pp. 295, 298.
13. See. I Ching, "Grand Commentary," B 10.
14. See Mo-tsucombining breve, B 37, which shows that the notion of cun, "to exist," in the sense of "to be in," which nowadays serves to translate the Western notion of ontology, is not developed in that direction.
15. See Martin Heidegger, "Plato's Doctrine of Truth," trans. Thomas Sheehan, Pathmarks, trans. Sheehan et al., ed. William McNeill (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 155-82.
16. See Graham, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science, p. 35.
17. See François Jullien, The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China, trans. Janet Lloyd (New York, 1995), pp. 219-58.
18. Jullien, Fonder la morale: Dialogue de Mencius avec un philosophe des lumières (Paris, 1995), chap. 5.
19. Xunzi, Jie bi, chap. 21.
20. See Xunzi, "Dispelling Blindness," A Translation and Study of the Complete Works, trans. John Knoblock, 3 vols. (Stanford, Calif., 1994), 3:88-112.
21. Parmenides of Elea, Fragments, frag. 1, 11. 2-3, 28, 9, pp. 49, 53, 49.
22. Tsze-sze, Zhong yong, par. 1.;
23. trans. Legge, under the title The Doctrine of the Mean, 1:246-98.