…of nature li and the character for li means the markings in jade, the fiber and muscle, the grain in wood. So Joseph Needham translates it: organic pattern. That's what's going on and there isn't any stuff involved. What stuff is is a pattern seen out…

…in jade, or the grain in wood or the fiber in muscle, and it has been translated by the great student of Chinese thought, Joseph Needham, as organic pattern. But it refers to the kind of complex order that we see, for example when we look at the stars…

…law of buddha, and I find this is a completely erroneous concept not only in relation to Indian thought but also as Joseph Needham has shown so skillfully in relation to Chinese thought. In the second volume of his science and civilization in china. He…

…of nature li and the character for li means the markings in jade, the fiber in muscle, the grain in wood. So Joseph Needham translates it: organic pattern. And that's what's going on and there isn't any stuff involved. What stuff is is a pattern seen…

…ways of thinking that exist between a Chinese Taoist and Neo Confucian Philosophy and the growth of ideas in modern biology. Joseph Needham has pointed this out of course in his remarkable history of science and civilization in china, and incidentally he is…

…mentioned a little while ago, the biophysicist l l white, and none of these people that I mentioned Goldstein, Bertalanffy, Etc. And Needham before he began to study Chinese Science none of these people had had any direct contact with the world of oriental…

…I'm afraid a mistake that has been put abroad in an otherwise admirable book, Joseph Needham's Science and civilization in china. Joseph Needham Doesn't know a great deal about Buddhism. He knows an awful lot about Taoism and his interpretation of Taoist Wu…

…new cycle of Confucianism is unrequited? I wish I could answer the question intelligently. Let me answer it as I think my friend Joseph Needham would answer it. The question was for those who could not hear on this side of the room whether or not a…

…emphasis on the coherence and ethic of the family, might give us a new religious point of departure in western culture. Joseph Needham is very skeptical about the historic value of Confucianism Simply because it is so tremendously centered upon man. This is…

…rather than a system of ethics. I don't believe this is the case. I think it is simply a hyper ethical religion. But Needham deplores the influence of Confucianism by and large upon china because he feels that by putting the focus so exclusively on human…

…additional focus upon the natural world. This focus, he feels has come through Taoism. Again I'm a little skeptical about this but Needham is a stupendous scholar. In fact I would say he is perhaps the greatest historian in the world at the present time.…

…at is the marvellous study of Chinese Science and civilisation which has recently been undertaken by a Great English Biologist, Joseph Needham. Having achieved some notable research in the field of biology before he was even 30, Needham devoted some 20 years…

…by a Great English Biologist, Joseph Needham. Having achieved some notable research in the field of biology before he was even 30, Needham devoted some 20 years to the study of china, without giving up the pursuit of his interests in western science, and…

…philosopher or physicist, architect or surgeon. On the other hand what Asia has achieved in the past is, as I think Needham has shown of far more than merely historical and antiquarian interest. We have already seen the applicability of Japanese Concepts of…

…ways of thinking that exist between a Chinese Daoist and Neo Confucian Philosophy and the growth of ideas in modern biology. Joseph Needham has pointed this out of course in his remarkable history of science and civilization in china, and incidentally he is…

…mentioned a little while ago, the biophysicist l l white. And none of these people that I mentioned Goldstein, Bertalanffy Etc. And Needham before he began to study Chinese Science, none of these people had had any direct contact with the world of oriental…

…to go back a bit to the Chinese. Why didn't they evolve technology? Well they knew an awful lot of things. Joseph Needham is writing a seven volume history of science and civilization in china, telling us all about their mathematics, their astronomy their…