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1、jeelooliuTHESTATUSOFCOSMICPRINCIPLE(LI)INNEO-CONFUCIANMETAPHYSICSIntroductionInthisarticle,IattempttomakeuseofWesternmetaphysicalnotionstoexplicatethecosmologicalvariancesinChinesephilosophicalthinking,withspecificreferencetothedebatesamongtheNeo-Confucianthinkers.WhileIdonotpresumeandar
2、guethatChinesephilosophersdealtwiththesameWesternissues,Idobelievethatacomparativestudyofthisnaturecanpointtoanewdirectionofthink-ingconcerningmetaphysicalponderinginNeo-Confucianism.Thisarticleisdividedintothreeparts.InPartI,IemployRobertNozick’snotionofnaturalcosmicstatetoanalyzethefu
3、ndamentaldifferencebetweentheConfucianandDaoistcosmologies.EventhoughthisnotionofnaturalcosmicstatehasnocomparablematchinChinesephilosophy,itmayserveasananalyticandexplanatorydeviceforourcomparativestudyofChinesecosmology.InPartII,IemployNicholasRescher’sdistinctionbetween“lawsofnature”
4、and“lawsfornature”toanalyzethedebateonthestatusofcosmicprin-abcciple(li)betweenZhouDunyiandZhuXiontheonehand,andde1ZhangZaiandWangFuzhiontheother.InPartIII,Iemploythenotionofsupervenience,asdefinedbyJaegwonKim,toarguethatinthedebateonthestatusofcosmicprinciple,itisZhangZaiandWangFuzhi’sv
5、iewthatbetterpreservesthecausalrelevanceofcosmic2principleinaphysicalisticuniverse.InlightofthethreenotionsborrowedfromcontemporaryWesternmetaphysics,Ihopetoofferananalyticreconstructionoftheage-olddebateonthestatusofcosmicprinciple(li).I.Background:TheNaturalCosmicStateAccordingtoRober
6、tNozick’sexplication,acosmicstateNisnaturalifitis“inneedofnoexplanation,whileallotherstatesaretobeJEELOOLIU,assistantprofessor,DepartmentofPhilosophy,CaliforniaStateUniver-sity,Fullerton.Specialties:PhilosophyofMind,PhilosophyofLanguage,MetaphysicsandChinesePhilosophy.E-mail:jeelooliu@g
7、mail.com.JournalofChinesePhilosophy32:3(September2005)391–407©2005JournalofChinesePhilosophy392jeelooliuexplainedasdeviationsfromN,resultingfromtheactionofforcesF3thatcausemovementawayfromthenaturalstate.”Thesenaturalstatesareassertedas“brutefacts”—noexplanationispossibleforwhy
