Metaphor and Freedom: New Implications of Li Ming in a Joint Context of Democracy and Science

Title

Metaphor and Freedom: New Implications of Li Ming in a Joint Context of Democracy and Science

Author

Norman Y. TENG

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173-208

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Abstract

This article proposes a practical minimalist account of free agency and its relation to causality. The proposal draws upon the Mencian idea of li ming through exploring as well as explicating its implications for modes of coupling democracy and science. The main thesis is that the practical perspective that renders free agency intelligible and the theoretical perspective that makes causality comprehensible are not separable from, but dynamically coupled to, one another.

Keyword

causality, democracy, free agency, GENERIC IS SPECIFIC metaphor, ming (destiny), practical minimalism

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