The Turn towards Philosophy in the Earliest Cosmologies : a comparative study of selected excavated Warring States period manuscripts and pre-Socratic fragments

Abstract

Comparative study of the earliest forms of philosophical thought as evidenced by the newly excavated Chinese cosmological texts and selected fragments of the Milesians.

Keywords

• early Chinese thought
• cosmology
• metaphysics
• excavated texts
• pre-Socratics
• Anaximander
• Anaximenes
• oneness
• process philosophy