Peter Hubral

Welcome to the Homepage of Peter Hubral

Those who know me, probably know me as a geophysicist (Homepage Uni-Karlsruhe ). Those who know me a little better, are aware of my philosophical interest in ancient (traditional) cultures (schools) between Greece and China and their concern with the traditional search for wisdom on account of meditative exercises to enhance one’s creativity, health, self-perception and world-perception. Those who know me even better are aware of my enthusiasm for Taiji (Tai-Chi, Dao, Tao, philosophical Taoism, Chinese philosophy, Tao Culture, Chan = Chinese Zen Culture) and comparative ancient philosophy ( prisca philosophia, first philosophy = πρώτη φιλοσοφία, eastern philosophy, Arab: al-falsafah al-ula), which is closely related to these topics.

It was written to attract interested persons to my German paperback book

Dao-Meister Platon (English: Tao-Master Plato) .

Before I draw your attention to it you may probably first want to read a summary of it published on 23.04.2010 on the website

http:///www.the-philosopher.co.uk/taowisdom.htm

of the well-known and highly reputed Journal The Philosopher (http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/) of the Philosophical Society of England.

If the article there entitled

The Tao: Modern Pathway to Ancient Wisdom

attracts you, you may want to come back to study this site.

If you like it as well, you may - even as an English speaking person - want to buy my German book, because it includes a very comprehensive Greek-Chinese dictionary with extensive references to many original and transcribed Greek words from (mainly Platonic) philosophia that I relate to original Chinese words (and transcriptions in Pinyin) of philosophical Taoism.

Many of these words are connected to meditative exercises that are part of the unwritten Greek Platonic and Tao-doctrine.

Though I use the German language to explain in the dictionary the relationship between the Chinese and Greek expressions, the connection can also be well grasped without my German explanations.

The book has the German subtitle

Moderne Taiji-Lehre: Schlüssel zur philosophia

This translates in English to:

Modern Tai Chi-(educational) system: Key to philosophia.

The book has 510 pages and was published in July 2008 by Longtai-Verlag Giessen (http://www.longtai.de).

Information on purchasing the book in the Internet can be found under: www.buchhandel.de

The complete list of contents in the German language is found under http://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/tocs/208491767.pdf