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#substance-vs-process
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Where do Zhu Xi’s li and qi fall in the substance-versus-process divide?
I recently saw a comparative table that sorted traditions by their answer to "what is real?". It placed Neo-Confucianism under "pattern and material force, inseparable in every thing" and left it outside the neat line it drew between substance traditions (Aristotle, Vedānta,…
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The deepest split in metaphysics is substance versus process, not matter versus mind
I want to defend a claim I came across in a comparative table of answers to "what is real?" across traditions. Most introductions organise metaphysics around matter versus mind: materialism, idealism, dualism. That division is real, but it's largely a European early-modern…
Started by Lars Eriksen5 replies