Chinese Philosophy

includes index and biblioraphy

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 Duo 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-Tin 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