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Енергийни практики в китайското изкуство на войната и мира
Еnergy Practices in the Chinese Arts of War and Peace

Author(s): Valeri Ivanov
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Cultural history, Non-European Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Ancient World, East Asian Philosophy
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: culture; tradition; existence; human being; energy; structure; function; quality; transformation; way;

Summary/Abstract: The Chinese cultural tradition connects the origin and existence of the world, the human being and society with the presence of a unified and all-pervading energy substance. This substance creates both the formal structures and their comparability and interrelationship. This universal substance is shared on all levels and aspects of existence, regardless of their manifestation. In this mutual sharing, the substance undergoes its fluctuations and transformations which are expressed in constructive or destructive ways of stimulating or repressing influence. This substance can be perceived, studied, understood, guided, and used, consciously or not. This view delineates the unified cosmos in which the subjective and the objective are only a matter of reference in determining existence.