One and Many: A Comparative Study of Plato's Philosophy and Daoism Represented by Ge Hong

List of Figures

ix List of Figures Fig. 1.1 The iconography of Xuan 10 Fig. 1.2 Names of hexagrams in the Book of Changes and headings in the Tai Xuan 11 Fig. 1.3 Tetragrams in the Tai Xuan 12–13 Fig. 1.4 A map of the Twenty-Eight Constellations 14 Fig. 1.5 Three influences on Ge Hong’s thought 30 Fig. 3.1 A female adept practicing the “Dao of Dividing Forms” 61 Fig. 3.2 The Inner Environment of the Daoist body 71 Fig. 3.3 Xuan 玄 and dan 丹 72 Fig. 3.4 Inner and Outer Alchemy and the wheel of change 77 Fig. 6.1 The Three Pure Ones in later Daoist iconography 120–121 Fig. 6.2 The natural gods of the Twenty-Eight Constellations 122–123 Fig. 6.3 The Sixty Primordial Asterisms 124 Fig. 6.4 Two groups of talismans 125 Fig. 6.5 Some of the immortals portrayed in Ming dynasty woodcuts 126–127 Fig. 6.6 The just soul and the just state in Plato’s hierarchy of One over many 136 Fig. 8.1 Two disputed models of the Huntian cosmology 191 Fig. 8.2 The celestial and terrestrial spheres of the Twenty-Eight Constellations 193 Fig. 8.3 The Armillary Sphere and the water clock 195 Fig. 8.4 A pictorial reconstruction of the astronomical clock tower 196 x figures Fig. 8.5 Heaven inscriptions 198 Fig. 8.6 Reconstruction of the Gaitian theory 204 Fig. 8.7 Mathematical order of the World Soul 224 Fig. 8.8 Two distinctive schemes of the One and the many 234 Fig. 8.9 From One to many through the creative act 236 Fig. 9.1 Alchemic traditions between the Han and Jin periods 241 Fig. 9.2 Cycles of change and material time-space 263 Fig. 9.3 Embryogenesis of matter and the alchemic structure of the universe 266 Fig. 9.4 The Standard Model and the Supersymmetry Model 268 Fig. 9.5 Interchangeable Five Phases and unchangeable elements 274 Fig. 9.6 Four elements–solids, cosmos-dodecahedron 278 Fig. 9.7 Mathematics of triangles 289 Fig. 9.8 Transformation from triangles to solids 294 xi Abbreviations AT “Astronomical Treatise” of the Jinshu DZ Daozang HNZ Huainanzi IC Inner Chapters of the Baopuzi LH Lun heng OC Outer Chapters of the Baopuzi OM one and many OVM one over many TPJ Taiping jing ZHDZ Zhonghua Daozang ...