I was looking through the Wilhelm translation of 易经 ( Yijing / I Ching ) today when I came across hexagram number 38: 睽 (kuí) translated as "opposition". I thought the passage had a certain dialectical sound to it. I particularly liked the suggestion that opposition does not preclude agree...

Hegel's Criticism of Laozi and its Implications by Wong Kwok Kui Philosophy East and West Vol. 61, No. 1 (JANUARY 2011), pp. 56-79 (24 pages) ABSTRACT This essay looks at the fundamental differences between Chinese and Western philosophy as reflected in Hegel's famous criticism of Laozi. In his Lec...

Comparison between Hegel’s Being-Nothing-Becoming and I-Ching ’s Yin-Yang-Yi by John Z. G. Ma Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences Volume 1, Issue 6 (2016) pages 1-15 ABSTRACT This article introduces a cross-cultural comparative study on Hegel’s Western triad of Being-Nothing-Becomi...

Physicist Mit[s]uo Taketani's paper (I've seen his name with & without the "s"): Dialectics of Nature: On Quantum Mechanics (January 31, 1936) https://forum.dialecticinstitute.org/Taketani-Dialectics_of_Nature.pdf Hegel is mentioned on p. 29 and the Hegelian concept of aufgehoben (&quo...

A paragraph from the introduction to Hideki Yukawa's autobiography, The Traveler , with an unexpected reference to Hegel's logic: Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹) won the Nobel Prize for discovering the meson. Mitsuo Taketani (武谷 三男) was a physicist and dialectical thinker. Shoichi Sakata (坂田 昌一) was a subatom...

Apparently I've been moved from Chinese Dialectics to Quantum Physics, which is fine, I guess... Anyway, sorry to reply to my own post, but the following paragraph in Rosenfeld's essay on "Niels Bohr's Contribution to Epistemology", which I did not include previously, also seems important,...

[NOTE: This post was moved from the CHINESE DIALECTICS forum to QUANTUM MECHANICS—Administrator] Hideki Yukawa was the first Japanese person to win a Nobel Prize (Physics 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces.") Léon Rosenfel...

From the American Physical Society: “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement,” he once observed, “But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” When Bohr was awarded the Order of the Elephant by the Danish government, he designed his own coat of arms. The...

[NOTE: This post was moved from the CHINESE DIALECTICS forum to QUANTUM MECHANICS—Administrator] I just read this interview with Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics : I was not expecting 3 Nobel laureates to show up in the discussion: Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr & Rabindranath Tagore.....

Thought I'd post this old article I found in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (which appears to have been renamed Critical Asian Studies at some point): Dialectic in China: Maoist and Daoist (1977) by J.W. Freiberg https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14672715.1977.10406395 "We a...