دانلود کتاب Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-modern China

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Chinese Thought, Society, and Science
Contents
Preface
Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
I. INTRODUCTION
1. The What and Why of This Book
2. Problems
3. Technicalities
II. THE DYNAMICS OF WRITTEN CHINESE
1. Basics of the Chinese Language
a. Chinese as a Spoken Language
b. Chinese Writing
2. Speech and Writing
3. Significance of the Written Language
4. Morphology, Grammar, Meaning
5. Stylistic Balance: Parallelism and Antithesis
6. Punctuation
7. Classification
8. Literary Devices
9. Compilation versus Synthesis
10. Conclusion
III. THE ORDERING OF SPACE, TIME, AND THINGS
1. Correlative Thinking
2. Symmetry and Centrality
3. Cyclical and Linear Time
4. Quantification
IV. THE ROLE OF RELIGION
1. Institutional and Diffused Religion
2. Religion and Science
V. GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
1. Orthodoxy, Authoritarianism, and Dissent
2. The Organicist View of Mankind
3. Social Classes
4. Consequences of Class Attitudes
a. The Chun-tzu as a Generalist
b. The Role of the Merchant
c. The Artisan and the Intellectual
VI. MORALS AND VALUES
1. The Moral View of Life
a. Moralism in the Arts
b. The Moralistic Interpretation of History
c. Militarism and Expansionism
d. Frugality and Technology
e. The Moralistic View of Nature
f. Moralism and Science
2. The Question of Sex
3. Individualism and Self-expression
4. Competition: The Example of Sports
5. Summary
VII. MANKIND AND NATURE
1. Seven Approaches to Nature
a. The Antagonistic/Indifferent Approach
b. The Exploitative/Utilitarian Approach
c. The Theistic/Anthropocentric Approach
d. The Naturalistic/Analytical Approach
e. The Animistic/Moralistic Approach
f. The Semireceptive Approach
g. The Wholly Receptive Approach
h. Nature, Mankind, and Science
2. Organicism and Laws of Nature
a. Did \"Laws of Nature\" Exist in China?
b. Cosmic Organicism and Science
VIII. CONCLUSIONS
Appendix: The Four Social Classes
Chinese Glossary
Bibliography
A. Chinese Original Sources
B. Secondary Works
Index