Living Chinese Philosophy: Zoetology as First Philosophy
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Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living").
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In Living Chinese Philosophy, Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with classical Chinese "zoetology" ("the art of living"), which is made explicit in the Yijing易經or Book of Changes. Parmenides, Plato, and Aristotle give us a substanc...






















