Abstract
This chapter focuses on the various aspects of Zhu Xi's knowledge about the natural world, and discusses some of their key features. It outlines Zhu Xi's notion of the natural world and his characteristic attitude toward natural phenomena. The chapter then shows how this attitude can be related to some key aspects of the basic ideas and assumptions of Zhu Xi's natural philosophy, and suggests how some general features of the conceptual schemes he used in discussing things and events of the natural world might have conditioned his perception and understanding of the natural world. It discusses Zhu Xi's attitude to specialized scientific branches. The chapter concludes with some speculations about the possible Influence Zhu Xi may have had, in terms of his natural knowledge and attitude to nature and science, on the subsequent development of science in China.Keywords: China; natural philosophy; nature; science; Zhu Xi
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