Classical Daoism in an Age of Globalization: From Abduction to Ars Contextualis in Early Daoist Cosmology

Title

Classical Daoism in an Age of Globalization: From Abduction to Ars Contextualis in Early Daoist Cosmology

Author

Roger T. AMES

Page

105-148

DOI

10.6163/tjeas.2015.12(2)105

Abstract

Development generally and the global impact of China's own growth more specifically, is producing a range of changing economic and political patterns that are relatively easy to track. But what about cultural change? What difference does this dramatic reconfiguration of economic and political dominance make for an elite world cultural order that has long been dominated by a powerful liberalism? And what will be the role of traditional Chinese customs and values in the evolution of a newly emerging cultural order? When we look for the cultural resources necessary to respond to the global and national predicament described below as a perfect storm, we might anticipate the need for a shift in values, intentions, and practices. In this essay, I will explore classical Daoist cosmology as one human resource that might enable humanity to weather the perfect storm and to emerge from it on a halcyon sea.

Keyword

abduction, ars contextualis, Daoism, cosmogony, Peirce, Laozi, infinite games

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