/lit/ - Literature

>To sum up, in terms of what we characterised earlier as cosmotechnics, we have seen the use of Li Qi in Confucianism to consolidate the cosmological and moral order; in Zhuangzi’s case, the ‘using’ or ‘not using’ (but not usage according to its technical and social determination) of the tool to mediate with Dao to acquire the art of living; whereas in Song’s work we see instead its role in both creating and using, in which the Qi-Doo moral relation is extended into everyday production. This organic form is not what we understand today as a reflexive, recursive process, but finds its highest principle in Dao— a cosmotechnics that binds the human to the cosmos.

and on that note, i think i’ll call it there for the evening. when we resume i’ll be skipping some of the stuff on the historical development of intellectual currents in China, although maybe some of what YH writes about disparities between Chinese and Western science will be interesting to some - i don’t really know. i’d prefer to get caught up to the modern day, and obviously there’s no need to greentext every alternate page of the book either. i’m just picking out stuff that seems interesting or germane to the thread for now.

i also wanted to give a shout-out to Yuganon for the scans of the George Morgan book, which i will give a more thorough read after some more posts about this book: thanks again, kind anon, it’s possible that many of us would never had a chance to read this one had you not taken the time to do that scanning and uploading. that was a really awesome thing to do: i hope you are basking in the glow of your Steam Achievement. as far as i know, that’s the only one awarded in the Cosmotech thread thus far…

so until next time gents. more YH greentext to come after a brief word from our sponsor (sleep). tomorrow we continue our ongoing night drive through Level-2.

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