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• Title:
  Minglitan: Chinese Translation and Commentary of Aristotle’s Categories from the 17th Century
• Creator:
  Rogacz, Dawid
• Description:
  This article puts forth the first Polish translation of fragments of Minglitan,„Investigation into the Meaning of Names”, that is Chinese translationand commentary of Aristotle’s Categories prepared by Chinesescholar, Li Zhizao and Portuguese Jesuit, Francisco Furtado, andpublished in 1631. Five pieces have been select for the translation:Li Tianjing’s preface to Minglitan; a groundbreaking essay on sourcesof philosophy, containing the very first Chinese transliteration of theterm φιλοσοφία; chapter on the category of substance; of quantity; andchapter on opposites. The translation has been furnished with footnoteselaborating on Chinese terms employed in the Minglitan, and hasbeen preceded by an introduction that delineates historical context ofMinglitan, its content and structure, along with a brief sketch of its mainlinguistic determinants.;
  This article puts forth the first Polish translation of fragments of Minglitan, „Investigation into the Meaning of Names”, that is Chinese translation and commentary of Aristotle’s Categories prepared by Chinese scholar, Li Zhizao and Portuguese Jesuit, Francisco Furtado, and published in 1631. Five pieces have been select for the translation: Li Tianjing’s preface to Minglitan; a groundbreaking essay on sources of philosophy, containing the very first Chinese transliteration of the term φιλοσοφία; chapter on the category of substance; of quantity; and chapter on opposites. The translation has been furnished with footnotes elaborating on Chinese terms employed in the Minglitan, and has been preceded by an introduction that delineates historical context of Minglitan, its content and structure, along with a brief sketch of its main linguistic determinants.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Authors retain copyright and publishing rights to their articles in this journal, granting the journal the right to distribute them under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
• Date:
  2016.03.17
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Articles;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2016); 273-284;
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Tom 7 Nr 1 (2016); 273-284;
  2082-7539
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/8422/8295
• Subject:
  Categories;
  Aristotle;
  Chinese and Greek philosophy;
  Jesuits;
  Ming dynasty
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/8422
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text