Zhu Xi (1130-1200).. Indeterminism and Energy

Zhu Xi was one of the better Chinese philosophers of his age, and one of the twelve classic Chinese philosphers of Chinese history. He rightly disdained fractious public service though he passed the highest Confucian civil service examine at the age of 18.

I wanted to point out a few of his ideas that seem relevant today.

He has a metaphysics with Li or nature and its indeterminate status and also energy that is called Chi in Chinese I believe. Zhu Xi also thought that the character of the leader determined the well being of the nation. With four bad Presidents in a row and bad energy policy it is easy to share an opinion that America's Li and Chi are out of phase.

Nature of course has an indeterminate quantum status from a human perspective, although in-itself it is probably part of a monistic field of some sort, and homosexual marriages aren't natural. A national policy with unnatural Li and a fossil fuel Chi or energy policy is one moving toward global warming and perhaps the heat death of humanity except for the 1% that will fly to the moon on special space ships to places with a view built by robots (probably just science fiction thought there).

Zhu Xi was an investigator of things, and would certainly have appreciated Democritus and maybe even Plato if he had known about them. Aristarchus too might have been worth reading for the neo-Confucians of the time.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/116573/Zhu-Xi

The Apostle Paul elaborated upon the metaphysics of Jesus Christ, the spirit of God and man's relationship to a transcendent social realm that shares the parameter of applying transcending values to politics and social construction. Zhu Xi of course finds the metaphysical imperative in Li or the quantum mechanical nature of reality, while the Apostle Paul looked toward the Author of the Universal phenomena for-itself.

In either case, regardless of the political criterion we look at of the Song Dynasty or of Imperial Rome and 1st century Jerusalem, human leadership fails to embody the Li or Spirit principle in relating to the transcendent within the secular, empirical world even so far as to select a social environment with a best case energy policy reinforcing the continuum of life on Earth. Without respect for nature and the quantum uncertainty constructed within flowing righteous parameters the Spiritual nature of human society tends to lead toward crashes instead of passing silently through the Berlin Walls of industry,politics and mass extinction through intelligent redesign.