Critique of 'Judgment' in Gongsun Long’s 'Zhiwu lun'

Autor: Shiqin She
Jazyk: English<br />Japanese<br />Korean<br />Chinese
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Asian Studies, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2232-5131
2350-4226
DOI: 10.4312/as.2022.10.2.269-298
Popis: This paper has attempted to characterize “Zhiwu lun” as the presentation of the incapacity of object-oriented knowledge to represent the realm of “things”, highlighting Gongsun Long’s epistemological and ontological value beyond a logical one. This paper proposes that only based upon this assumption does “Zhiwu lun” allow a thorough interpretation of “Mingshi lun”, whereby the intuitive function of “names” provides a better solution to the cognitive limits imposed by object-oriented (self-)consciousness. Methodologically, this paper mainly considers the Heidelberg School’s interpretation of Hölderlin’s critique of judgment in “Judgment and Being” to be both a complementary justification and reconstruction of the implicit structures of Gongsun Long’s view. This paper has presupposed the interpretation of Gongsun Long’s key concept of 指 as “judgment” in Hölderlin’s sense, in contrast to “things” (物) and “name” (名), then verified this hypothesis, as well as the relationships amongst these translations, by a close textual analysis and new translation of “Zhiwu lun”.
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