Shen Kuo's Intellectual World: a Practice of Hearingism
by Zuo Ya
About This Novel
Shen Kuo enjoys a lofty status as a national hero in the field of science and technology history. However, once you restore it to the historical context, you will find that as a scholar-official in the traditional sense, he actually experienced ups and downs in his official career - from a participant in the "Wang Anshi New Deal" to being a "traitor to the new law" and being exiled. This book adopts a unique "contrastive" structure to reveal the connection between Shen Kuo's career experience and the "hearing and seeing doctrine" stance that ran through his life-long research. It is not only a biography, but also an exploration of philosophical concepts. With "the doctrine of hearing and seeing" as the core, the author establishes a set of concepts for exploring the intellectual world of the Northern Song Dynasty, brings it into the understanding of Shen Kuo's life course and historical context, and conducts an in-depth examination of the cognitive model that is completely different between Shen Kuo and his contemporaries - the epistemological philosophy based on hearing and seeing, and then unearths the hidden aspects of the intellectual history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and reconstructs our understanding of the historical picture of the intellectual world of the Northern Song Dynasty.
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