Preface |
page xi |
Lists of Dates |
xiii |
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1 Chinese Philosophy |
1 |
Origins of Chinese Philosophy |
3 |
Features of Chinese Philosophy |
4 |
Self Cultivation |
4 |
Understanding the Self: Relationships and Contexts |
6 |
Conceptions of Harmony |
8 |
Conceptions of Change |
10 |
The Philosophy of the Yijing ( The Book of Changes) |
11 |
Thinking Philosophically |
15 |
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2 Confucius and the Cofucian Concepts Ren and Li |
19 |
Reading the Analects |
19 |
Ren: Humaneness |
21 |
Ren as Love |
22 |
Ren, the Confucian Golden Rule |
22 |
Ren and the Cultivation of Special Relationships |
23 |
Ren as Ethical Wisdom |
24 |
Li: Behavioural Propriety |
25 |
Ren and Li |
27 |
Ren is Fundamental |
28 |
Li is Fumdamental |
29 |
Ren and Li are Interdependent Concepts |
30 |
Ren and Li in Contemporary Philosophical Debates |
30 |
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3 The Cultivation of Humanity in Confucian |
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Philosophy: Mencius and Xunzi |
35 |
Mencius: The Cultivation of Human Nature |
36 |
Xunzi: The Regulation of Human Behaviour |
40 |
Li (Appropriate Behaviour) and Fa (Standard and Penal Law |
41 |
Zhengming: Regulating Society with Prescribed Titles |
43 |
The Way of Heaven and the Way of Humanity |
45 |
Personal Cultivation and Social Development |
47 |
Character Development and the Cultivation of Skills |
49 |
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4 Early Mohist Philosophy |
55 |
Texts and Themes |
56 |
The Essays |
57 |
Maximising the Collective Good |
59 |
Working with Standards |
63 |
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5 Early Daoist Philosophy: The Dao De Jing as |
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a Metaphysical Treatise |
71 |
The origins of Daoist Philosophy and the Early Daoist Texts |
72 |
Dao as Reality: the Search for a New Reality |
74 |
Opposites: Contrast and Complementation |
81 |
De and the Intergrity of the Individual |
84 |
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6 Early Daoist Philosophy: Dao, Language and Society |
93 |
Dao, Language and Indoctrination |
94 |
Wuwei |
97 |
Wuwei and Government |
99 |
Wuwei and Learning |
102 |
The Ethics of Ziran and Wuwei |
105 |
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7 The Mingjia and the Later Mohists |
111 |
The Mingjia Debates |
114 |
Hui Shi |
115 |
Gongsun Long |
118 |
The Later Mohists |
123 |
Argumentation and Disputation: Bian |
125 |
Language, Names and Propositions |
128 |
Scientific Discussions |
131 |
Practising Jianai: Utilitarian Morality |
134 |
Philosophy of Language in Early China |
136 |
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8 Zhuangzi's Philosophy |
142 |
Epistemological Questions in the Qiwu Lun |
145 |
Interpretations of Zhuangzi's Scepticism |
152 |
Cultivating Knack |
156 |
The Implications of the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi |
166 |
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9 Legalist Philosophy |
172 |
Three Basic Themes: Penal Law, Technique and Power |
174 |
Fa: Standards and Penal Law |
174 |
Shu: The Technique of Managing the Bureaucracy |
178 |
Shi: Power |
181 |
Han Fei, the Great Synthesiser |
184 |
Debates in Legalist Philosophy |
186 |
Human Nature |
186 |
Citizenry: the Role of the common People |
187 |
Best Man and Best Laws |
189 |
Bureaucracy |
191 |
Secrecy, Power and the Control of Knowledge |
193 |
Government and Human Development |
195 |
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10 The Yijing and its Place in Chinese Philosophy |
199 |
The Text and Commenraties |
201 |
Comprehensive Synthesis and Correlative Thinking |
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during the Han |
203 |
Correlative Thinking: then Spirit of the Yijing |
212 |
(1) The Primacy of Observation |
213 |
(2) A Holistic, All-emcompassing Perspective |
214 |
(3) A Dialectical and Complementary Approach to Dualisms |
215 |
(4) Correlative Thinking and Resonance |
217 |
(5) An Interpretive Approach to the Meanings of the |
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Hexagrams and Correspondences |
220 |
(6) Constant Moverment Maked by the Inevitability |
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of Change |
223 |
(7) The Action-guiding Nature of the Judgements |
226 |
The Impact of the Yijing |
229 |
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11 Chinese Buddhism |
235 |
Basic Tenets of Buddhist Thought |
236 |
The Introduction of Buddhism into China |
244 |
Chinese Buddhist Doctrines during the fifth and |
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sixth centuries CE |
250 |
Three Treatise (San Lun) Buddhism |
251 |
Consciousness-Only (Wei Shi) Buddhism |
253 |
Tian Tai Buddhism |
255 |
Flower Garland (Han Yan) Buddhism |
257 |
Chan Buddhism |
261 |
Chinese Buddism |
267 |
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Postscript |
272 |
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Glossary |
278 |
Bibliography |
288 |
Index |
300 |