Meister Eckharts Dialektik

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Gerhard Faden
Keyword(s):  
Dialectical Structure ◽  
Substance Origin

This article tries to point out the dialectical and paradoxical character of Eckhart’s thought, which permits him at once to affirm and to negate categories such as being, nothingness, personality, substance, origin, creation, image. In this way, Eckhart can unite a personal-theistic and a non-personal-atheistic view. A dialectical structure can also be seen in Eckhart’s ethics. Further, the dialectical interpretation can elucidate the ambivalence in the concept of the scintilla animae. The origin and aim of Eckhart’s dialectics proves to consist in the concept of non-distinction.

Animal Death: Paolo Bacigalupi

2017 ◽  
pp. 133-180
Author(s):  
Brian Willems
Keyword(s):  
Short Circuit ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
Dialectical Structure ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Way

Paolo Bacigalupi’s Nebula award-winning novel The Windup Girl (2009) sets up a dialectical situation which it then disrupts. This is important for two reasons. First, dialectic formations are often also assemblages or networks, meaning that their constituent parts are defined by how they interact with each other rather than by the essence which is withdrawn from such interactions. In the previous chapter, symbiosis was seen as a powerful tool for change. However, the way it was described often bordered on a dialectical structure, as did the doubling of double-vision and the contradiction of crisis energy. The Windup Girl offers a different strategy, the short circuit. In brief, this means that one of the terms of a symbiosis disrupts the symbiosis. This disruption takes the form of spatial and temporal tensions, as described above and developed below.

T. S. Eliot: The Dialectical Structure of His Theory of Poetry.

1967 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 573
Author(s):  
Walter J. Ong ◽  
Fei-Pai Lu
Keyword(s):  
Dialectical Structure

Towards a cultural model of qi in TCM

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Feng
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Physiological Function ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Pathogenic Factor ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Conceptual Network ◽  
Substance Origin

Abstract This paper aims to construct a cultural model of qi in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) by probing into its conceptual metaphors based on a contextualized semantic analysis of qi in Huang Di’s Inner Classic (HDIC). It is found that there are eight conceptual metaphors of qi, each involving experiential correlation between source and target concept. To be specific, cause for effect builds up a major metonymic basis for the metaphorical mappings from the source concept of qi (i.e., substance) to the target concepts, including physiological function, breathing, climate, pathogenic factor, disease/syndrome, odor, property of drugs and time. It is worth special noting that time is understood in terms of the motion of qi in TCM. The conceptual metaphor time is qi is Chinese culture-specific. On the whole, conceptual metaphors of qi form a conceptual network and further constitute a cultural model: qi as the substance origin of human life is believed in TCM to function by ceaseless motion, giving rise to wellness or illness. This cultural model reflects a pair of inseparable concepts in ancient Chinese philosophy, viz. substance and (its) function, with the former being primary, essential and original, while the latter, secondary, concomitant and derivational.

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