This book sums up the author's research outcome of the last few years in an area of study on culture, philosophy and Chinese medicine which has been too often misunderstood or insufficiently emphasized. This book has three independent but progressive parts, each bearing the title of one of the three courses taught by the author as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vienna University, in the 2010-2011 winter semester, namely: Overview of Chinese Culture through Chinese Characters, Fundamental Concepts of Classical Chinese Philosophy and The Importance of Metaphors in Chinese Medicine, which are in the fields of philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and intercultural philosophy, aiming to reveal the essence of philosophy of Chinese language, classical Chinese philosophy and Chinese medicine within the context of a global, multicultural background. This book lays a solid foundation for understanding, developing and modernizing Chinese medicine in the right way.Ĭhinese medicine is a culturally dependent art of healing deeply rooted in the culture and philosophy of the country it originated from: China. Metaphor, the Dao or Way of constructing and developing Chinese medicine, is the weaver of Chinese medicine. Its procedure "Observing Object - Taking Image - Analogizing - Understanding Dao" runs through almost all the aspects of Chinese medicine from forming its fundamental concepts, elaborating its theories, developing its clinical explorations, guiding clinical practice, to developing Chinese medicine, and finally forming metaphors in Chinese medicine. Qu Xiang Bi Lei or metaphorizing is the core methodology of Chinese medicine.
Since Qu Xiang Bi Lei results in the formation of metaphors, so it is the metaphorizing process and the way of forming metaphors. How is the theoretical system of Chinese medicine formed, stated and constructed? How are the human being, health, and disease understood in Chinese medicine? How is the herbal theory constructed? How has Chinese medicine been developed? How should Chinese medicine be modernized? The answer to all these questions is Qu Xiang Bi Lei 取象比类, or Taking Image and Analogizing.
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