Anticipating China

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Abridged
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anticipating the Argument
Clearing a Path to China
Circles and Squares
Squaring the Circle
From Chaos to Cosmos
Rest and Permanence
The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox
Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagors
From Theoria to Theory
Counterdiscourse: The Sophists
Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies
Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought
Humanitas and the Imago Dei
The Persistence of the Rational Ethos
Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos
The Contingency of Culture
The First and Second Problematics
China and the First Problematic
Comparing Comparative Methods
Intercultural Vagueness
Extending the Circle
Acosmotic "Beginnings"
Analogical Discource in the Confucian Analects
Experiments in Rationalism
The Emergence of Han Thinking
The Dominance of Han Thinking
A Closing Anticipation
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
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