Names (ming 名) from the Perspective of Onto-Hermeneutics: Reconciling Cheng Chung-ying and Heidegger on the Problem of Language
2021
Abstract
Contemporary philosophy has efficient interpretive models overcoming subject-object split and embracing the view of the continuous interaction of opposites, such as Gadamer's hermeneutics of being or Heidegger's phenomenology. The paper demonstrates how these models can be applied to interpretation of ancient Chinese texts, in particular how the topic of names (ming 名) in the pre-Han philosophy can be reinterpreted from the perspective of Heidegger's Dasein as self-articulated Being-in-the-world.
It thus develops on Cheng Chung-ying's onto-hermeneutics of the Yijing by bringing in the dimension of language and speech as self-articulation of the cosmos.