文档介绍：What is the philosophy underlying the book Yi Jing
1. The underlying idea of the whole book is the idea of change. The theme is that Yin and Yang alternate in an unending sequence and that an extreme situation must change to make room for opposite elements. (阴阳交替、物极必反)
2. The second element fundamental to the Book of Changes is its theory of ideas(事物产生、发展的思想). This view is associated with the concept that every event in the visible world is the effect of an “image”, that is, of an idea in the unseen world. (我们所看到的每样事物,都是我们看不见的未知世界某种东西作用的结果)
3. The third element fundamental to the Book of Changes is the judgments, which, as it were, clothe the images in words. They indicate whether a given action will bring good fortune or bad fortune, remorse or humiliation.
4. The Book of Changes contains all the ideas and principles of traditional Chinese moral philosophy. (包含着中国传统道德哲学中所有的思想和原理)
It is the high summary of the natural rules.(对自然规律的高度总结)
5. It includes three views:
The view of beginning and ending (终始观)
Materialism (唯物观)
The concept of development (发展观)
The view of beginning and ending (终始观)
“道非常道,有无相生”是中国道德哲学对自然界本质的深刻揭示,是对自然规律的高度总结。不仅包含着西方现代哲学唯物观、发展观、联系观更重要的是创立了西方哲学一直未重视的终始观。
2) Materialism (唯物观)
《易经》六十四卦是由八个单卦两两组合而成的,这八个单卦全部以自然界八种物质或物质现象命名。其卦名的字义虽然不完全显示具体物质,但其所代表的内容离不开物质现象。
3) The concept of development (发展观)
前三十二卦代表了事物由诞生、发展、状大直至消亡的全过程,完完全全的体现了发展论的观点,后三十二卦体现了人生的进退、得失、生养等发展变化历程。都有前事之终,后事之始,承上启下,承前启后的意思。
6. Three major principles:
1)不易(Eternal) :易之变也,不易就是不会改变。什么才会不变,那就是千秋不改万古永恒的东西。就广义来说,就是永远不会改变的东西,永恒不变才是“真理”。她是不以人们的意志为转移的客观存在。如,一年中的四季更替,日夜的转换等等。