Between Reasoning and Resonance Proposal of Intelligibility for Inhabiting the Crossroads of the Five Chinese Elements and the Five Platonic Solids

Abstract

This thesis explores the heuristic virtues of a correspondence hypothesis between two cosmogenesis, the Greek 5 Platonic solids and the Chinese 5 agents - wuxing. This research deploys its coherence by weaving transdisciplinary links, from works in Chinese medicine, polyhedral geometry, philosophy, mechanics of structures, and systemic - and by using different methodologies: translation, metaphor, mathematic isomorphism… Hypotheses follow one another: 1- clarify the classification 5 or 6 of the wuxing (Granet, Lavier); 2- develop the geometric organon (Serres); 3- identify the sphere as a matrix (Fuller); 4- deepen the structural dualism (Wester); 5 –recognize each of the cosmogonies as a general system (Bertalanffy, Rosen). By clearing a path between the epistemological regimes of the different disciplines, this work - if it sheds light on this mysterious Timaeus and explains the different systems of TCM - proposes more broadly, a new intelligibility of living in resonance with the world (Rosa).

Keywords

• Cosmogeneses
• platonic solids
• Chinese agents
• resonance
• geometric organon
• general systemology