Document Type
Journal Article
Department/Unit
Department of Religion and Philosophy
Language
English
Abstract
Both Kant's architectonic and the Yijing can be structured as four perspectival levels: 0 + 4 + 12 + (4 × 12) = 64. The first, unknowable level is unrepresentable. The geometry of logic provides well‐structured maps for levels two to four. Level two consists of four basic gua (2, 64, 63, 1), corresponding to Kant's category‐headings (quantity, quality, relation, modality). Level three's twelve gua, derived logically from the initial four, correspond to Kant's twelve categories. Level four correlates the remaining 48 gua (in twelve sets of four) to Kant's theory of the four university faculties (philosophy, theology, law, medicine), and to four categorially organized (twelvefold) domains comprising his philosophical system.
Publication Date
12-2012
Source Publication Title
Journal of Chinese Philosophy
Volume
39
Issue
Supplement S1
Start Page
93
End Page
111
Publisher
Wiley
DOI
10.1111/1540-6253.12007
Link to Publisher's Edition
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-6253.12007
ISSN (print)
03018121
ISSN (electronic)
15406253
APA Citation
Palmquist, S. (2012). Mapping Kant’s Architectonic onto the Yijing Via the Geometry of Logic. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 39 (Supplement S1), 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6253.12007