CREATION AND CAUSALITY IN CHINESE-JESUIT POLEMICAL LITERATURE

During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Jesuit missionaries in China published a variety of apologetic and polemical materials in literary Chinese. In these, they opposed the Neo-Confucian idea of cosmogony as the natural evolution of a primordial substance called ai, following se...

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Published in:Philosophy east & west 2016-10, Vol.66 (4), p.1251-1272
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Analysis
Argumentation
Aristotelianism
Aristotle
Asian literature
Buddhism
Causality
Causation
Causation (Philosophy)
Chinese languages
Chinese philosophy
Christianity
Cosmogony
Existence
Heaven
Infinite regress
Miscommunication
Phenomena
Philosophy, Chinese
Prime mover
Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610)
Society of Jesus
Thought
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subjects Analysis
Argumentation
Aristotelianism
Aristotle
Asian literature
Buddhism
Causality
Causation
Causation (Philosophy)
Chinese languages
Chinese philosophy
Christianity
Cosmogony
Existence
Heaven
Infinite regress
Miscommunication
Phenomena
Philosophy, Chinese
Prime mover
Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610)
Society of Jesus
Thought
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