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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-18676-6 — Chinese Philosophy Haiming Wen Table of Contents More Information

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Introduction: What is Chinese Philosophy? 1

Zhouyi: The Starting Point of Chinese Philosophy 7 A Mystical and Profound Classic 8 From Taiji to Eight Trigrams 11 The Philosophy of Zhouyi 14

Chinese Political Philosophy: Pre-Qin Philosophers 21 Confucius (Kongzi): Family Reverence as the Root of Humanity 22 Mencius (Mengzi): Governing the State with Humane Love 31 Laozi: The Great Dao is like Water 38 Zhuangzi: Wandering at ease without Self 48 Mozi and other Pre-Qin Thinkers 55 Xunzi’s Political Theory 58 Han Fei’s Art of Rulership 60 Sunzi’s Art of War 62

Chinese Metaphysics: Interpretations of the World from Han to Tang Dynasties 67 Chinese Cosmology in the Han Dynasty 68 The Ontology of Being and Nothingness in the Wei-Jin Dynasties 74 Chinese Metaphysics of Emptiness (Sunyata): Buddhism in the Sui and Tang Dynasties 84 Chan Buddhism: Enlightening Buddhist Wisdom 97

Chinese Epistemology: Song-Ming Philosophers on the Relationship between Mind-Heart and Things/ Events 105 From Han Yu to Zhang Zai 106 The Cheng Brothers and the “Luo School” 114 Zhu Xi: Extinguishing Human Desires in order to keep Heavenly Li 117 Lu Jiuyuan: The Cosmos does not exist without Mind 122 Wang Yangming: Nothing is outside one’s Mind 124

The Dao of Chinese Philosophy: Its Sustainment and Creativity 131 Three Philosophers between the Ming and Qing Dynasties 132 Modern Chinese Philosophy as responses to Western Philosophies 138

Modern Chinese Philosophy: New Confucianism and East-West Comparative Philosophy 145 Hu Shi, Fung Yu-lan, and the discipline of Modern Chinese Philosophy 146 Xiong Shili and New Confucianism 148 Contemporary East-West Comparative Philosophy 152

Appendix I: Table of Key Philosophical Terms 157

Appendix II: Timeline of Chinese and Western Philosophies 160

Appendix III: Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties 165