Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis profundo en la metafísica china
El «Dào Dé Jīng» es una de las obras daoístas más importantes de la filosofía china. Su dimensión metafísica se reconstruirá a partir de un método mereológico (el estudio de las partes y el conjunto que forman). El proyecto Mereodao, financiado con fondos europeos, analizará elementos fundamentales de la metafísica daoísta, utilizándola como punto de entrada para posteriores etapas de la reconstrucción, como reglas de composición, temporalidad y causalidad. El estudio investigará cómo esa reconstrucción está relacionada con la ubicación, un tema ampliamente discutido en la literatura mereológica contemporánea. En general, el proyecto llenará el vacío de investigación de la metafísica china con reconstrucciones tanto mereológicas como analíticas, y ofrecerá una conceptualización del sistema metafísico daoísta.
Objetivo
The project is a mereological reconstruction of the metaphysical system in the Daodejing. The general motivation for the project is to fill the gap in Chinese and comparative philosophy the state of the art, where mereological as well as analytic reconstructions are scarce. The specific motivation is that mereological approach enables precise reconstruction that (a) offers a comprehensive conceptualization of Daoist metaphysical system and (b) allows to generate the issues and plausibly debates that so far have not been present in Chinese metaphysics. My project begins with the conceptualization of the Daoist system as monistic-materialistic one, after which I proceed to the mereological reconstruction. By resorting to the latest mereological research, I will analyze the status of the two fundamental elements of Daoist metaphysics, dao and you. Accordingly, I will show that these two ontic subregions should be reconstructed as two different mereological sums determined by atemporal unrestricted composition and temporal restricted composition respectively. Next, I will proceed to reconstructing the relation between the two sums, which will be conceptualized within the framework of Chinese causation theory. I will show that causality applies to the relations between parts that that the two mereological sums overlap. Next, I will proceed to a detailed reconstruction of the whole system, which will involve among others proving that with regard to parthood, the “atomless gunk” conception is more plausible than that of mereological singles. I will also discuss how the reconstruction is related to location, an issue that has been under intense discussion in contemporary mereological literature.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
OX1 2JD Oxford
Reino Unido