The Tao of Physics
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Fritjof Capra. The Tao of Physics
Contents
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1 Modern Physics – A Path with a Heart?
Chapter 2 Knowing and Seeing
Chapter 3 Beyond Language
Chapter 4 The New Physics
CLASSICAL PHYSICS
MODERN PHYSICS
Chapter 5 Hinduism
Chapter 6 Buddhism
Chapter 7 Chinese Thought
Chapter 8 Taoism
Chapter 9 Zen
III The Parallels
Chapter 10 The Unity of All Things
Chapter 11 Beyond the World of Opposites
Chapter 12 Space-time
Chapter 13 The Dynamic Universe
Chapter 14 Emptiness and Form
Chapter 15 The Cosmic Dance
Chapter 16 Quark Symmetries – A New Koan?
Chapter 17 Patterns of Change
Chapter 18 Interpenetration
Epilogue
The New Physics Revisited Afterword to the Second Edition
The Future of the New Physics Afterword to the Third Edition. THE VISION
IMPACT OF THE BOOK
THE PARADIGM SHIFT
INFLUENCE OF HEISENBEG AND CHEW
NEW-PARADIGM THINKING IN SCIENCE
CRITICISM OF THE TAO OF PHYSICS
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
Notes. I THE WAY OF PHYSICS. Chapter 1: Modem Physics—A Path with a Heart?
Chapter 2: Knowing and Seeing
Chapter 3: Beyond Language
Chapter 4: The New Physics
II THE WAY OF EASTERN MYSTICISM. Chapter 5: Hinduism
Chapter 6: Buddhism
Chapter 7: Chinese Thought
Chapter 8: Taoism
Chapter 9: Zen
III THE PARALLELS. Chapter 10: The Unity of All Things
Chapter 11: Beyond the World of Opposites
Chapter 12: Space-time
Chapter 13: The Dynamic Universe
Chapter 14: Emptiness and Form
Chapter 15: The Cosmic Dance
Chapter 17: Patterns of Change
Chapter 18: Interpenetration
EPILOGUE
THE NEW PHYSICS REVISITED
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Fritjof Capra
Copyright
About the Publisher
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FRITJOF CAPRA
The Tao of Physics
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Personal experience is … the foundation of Buddhist philosophy. In this sense Buddhism is radical empiricism or experientialism, whatever dialectic later developed to probe the meaning of enlightenment-experience.8
Joseph Needham repeatedly brings the empirical attitude of Taoists into prominence in his work Science and Civilisation in China and finds that this attitude has made Taoism the basis of Chinese science and technology. The early Taoist philosophers, in Needham’s words, ‘withdrew into the wilderness, the forests and mountains, there to meditate upon the Order of Nature, and to observe its innumerable manifestations’.9 The same spirit is reflected in the Zen verses,
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