Vital Nourishment: Departing from HappinessThe philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning. Although this process has given rise to a rich history of inquiry, it proceeds too fast, contends François Jullien. In its anxiety about meaning, Western thinkers since Plato have forgotten simply to experience life. |
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... hygiene's place and significance would seem secondary , or in any case insufficiently noble in the eyes of phi- losophers , if it did not reveal something of far greater importance about an epistemological order , touching on the ...
... . Second , what distinguishes hygienic thought from our “ physical ” knowledge , including medicine , is that it is based on an idea not of causality but of influence ( influence of food , activity , climate , season , and so 133 ON ...
... hygiene is one of propensity . The Chinese mind , whether engaged in thoughts of hygiene , morality , or strategy , is always prepared to scrutinize the infinitesimal , the source of evolutions whose ultimate consequence , unfolding of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Preserving the Freedom to Change | 23 |
To Feed Ones LifeTo Force Ones Life | 33 |
Copyright | |
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