Table Of ContentDao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy
Dao Companions to Chinese
Philosophy
Editor
HUANG Yong
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
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philosophy becomes more and more obvious. Among all the non-Western
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more than 2500 years, many extremely important classics, philosophers, and
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JohnMakeham
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Contents
Introduction................................................ ix
JohnMakeham
ZHOUDunyi’sPhilosophyoftheSupremePolarity .................. 1
Tze-kiHon
SHAOYong’sNumerological-CosmologicalSystem.................. 17
DonJ.Wyatt
ZHANGZai’sTheoryofVitalEnergy............................. 39
RobinR.WangandDINGWeixiang
CHENGYi’sMoralPhilosophy.................................. 59
HUANGYong
TheThesisofSingle-RootednessintheThoughtofCHENGHao ........ 89
WONGWai-ying
HUHong’sPhilosophy........................................ 105
HansvanEss
ZHANGShi’sPhilosophicalPerspectivesonHumanNature,Heart/Mind,
Humaneness,andtheSupremeUltimate .......................... 125
HoytClevelandTillmanandChristianSoffel
ZHUXi’sCosmology ......................................... 153
JohnBerthrong
ZHUXi’sMoralPsychology.................................... 177
Kwong-loiShun
LU¨ Zuqian’sPoliticalPhilosophy................................ 197
KaiMarchal
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Neo-ConfucianPhilosophyandGenre:ThePhilosophicalWritings
ofCHENChunandZHENDexiu................................. 223
Hilde DeWeerdt
LUXiangshan’sEthicalPhilosophy.............................. 249
PhilipJ.Ivanhoe
‘‘TheFourMastersofMingzhou’’:TransmissionandInnovation
amongtheDisciplesofLUJiuyuan(Xiangshan) .................... 267
LindaWalton
MetaphysicsandtheBasisofMoralityinthePhilosophyofWANG
Yangming ................................................. 295
DavidW.Tien
WANGYangmingasaVirtueEthicist............................. 315
StephenC.Angle
LIUZongzhouonSelf-Cultivation ............................... 337
Chung-yiCheng
WANGFuzhi’sPhilosophyofPrinciple(Li)InherentinQi............. 355
JeeLooLiu
LIGuangdiandthePhilosophyofHumanNature................... 381
NGOn-cho
DAIZhenonHumanNatureandMoralCultivation ................. 399
JustinTiwald
Index..................................................... 423
Contributors
StephenC.Angle PhilosophyDepartment,WesleyanUniversity,350High
Street,Middletown,CT06459,USA,[email protected]
JohnBerthrong AssociateProfessorofComparativeTheology,Boston
University School of Theology, and Deputy Director of the Division
ofReligiousandTheologicalStudies,Boston,USA,[email protected]
Chung-yiCheng DepartmentofPhilosophyandResearchCenterforChinese
PhilosophyandCulture,TheChineseUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,
PRC, [email protected]
DINGWeixiang DepartmentofPhilosophy,ShaanxiNormalUniversity,
People’sRepublicofChina,[email protected]
Tze-kiHon HistoryDepartment,StateUniversityofNewYorkatGeneseo,
USA,[email protected]
HUANGYong DepartmentofPhilosophy,KutztownUniversity
ofPennsylvania,Kutztown,PA19530,USA,[email protected]
PhilipJ.Ivanhoe ProfessorofPhilosophy,DepartmentofPublicandSocial
Administration,CityUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,PRC,
[email protected]
JeeLooLiu DepartmentofPhilosophy,CaliforniaStateUniversityat
Fullerton,USA,[email protected]
JohnMakeham TheAustralianNational,University,Canberra,ACT,
Australia,[email protected]
KaiMarchal SoochowUniversity,DepartmentofPhilosophy,70LinhsiRoad,
Shihlin,Taipei111-02,Taiwan,R.O.C.,[email protected]
NGOn-cho ProfessorofHistory,ReligiousStudies,andAsianStudies;
ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity,USA,[email protected]
Kwong-loiShun TheChineseUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,PRC,
[email protected]
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viii Contributors
ChristianSoffel ChristianSoffel, InstituteofChineseStudies,Munich
University,Germany,[email protected]
DavidW.Tien DepartmentofPhilosophy,NationalUniversityofSingapore,
Singapore,[email protected]
HoytClevelandTillman SchoolofHistorical,PhilosophicalandReligious
StudiesatArizonaStateUniversity,Tempe,USA,[email protected]
JustinTiwald DepartmentofPhilosophy, SanFranciscoStateUniversity,
SanFrancisco,CA94132,USA,[email protected]
HansvanEss LMUMunich,DepartmentforAsianStudies,Sinologisches
Seminar,Kaulbachstr.51a,80539Munich,Germany,[email protected]
LindaWalton ProfessorofHistory,PortlandStateUniversity,USA,
[email protected]
RobinR.Wang LoyolaMarymountUniversity,USA,[email protected]
HildeDeWeerdt UniversityofOxford,InstituteforChineseStudiesand
PembrokeCollege,UK,[email protected]
WONGWai-ying DepartmentofPhilosophy,LingnanUniversity,HongKong,
PRC,[email protected]
DonJ.Wyatt DepartmentofHistory,MiddleburyCollege,Middlebury,
VT05753,USA,[email protected]
Introduction
JohnMakeham
Early in 2007, HUANG Yong approached me to see if I might be interested in
editing a volume on Neo-Confucian philosophy as part of the new Springer
bookseries,‘‘DaoCompanions toChinesePhilosophy.’’Unhamperedbyany
realisticsenseofwhatsuchataskmightentail,somewhatnaivelyIacceptedthe
invitation and began to approach potential contributors to solicit advice on
how the volume might be structured. The question of whether the volume
should be arranged on the basis of philosophical themes and topics or
organized on the basis of the philosophical thought of individual thinkers
provedtobethefirstchallenge.Intellectuallythefirstoptionseemedtobethe
most rewarding (and difficult); it was also the one on which there was little
consensusamongcontributorstotheprojectaboutjusthowathematicvolume
mightbestructured.Theeventualdecisiontostructurethevolumeonthebasis
of the philosophical thought of individual thinkers, in addition to being
organizationallymorestraightforward,hadthebenefitofenablingauthorsto
address issues of historical context more directly, and also to explore more
systematically how individual thinkers had used particular combinations of
concepts to frame their philosophical views. The choice of which thinkers to
include was made through a combination of inviting the participation of
contributors with acknowledged expertise on particular thinkers and also
allowing contributors to choose the thinkers and ideas they wanted to
introduce.
Theresultofthiscollaborativeundertakingisthefirstvolumetoprovidea
comprehensive introduction, in accessible English, to the Neo-Confucian
philosophical thought ofrepresentative Chinesethinkersfrom theeleventhto
theeighteenthcenturies.1Thevolumeisnotsimplyacollectionofbiographies
norisitdesignedtoprovideahistoryofNeo-Confucianphilosophy;itis,first
1ThevolumedoesnotincludecoverageofthephilosophicalthoughtofallNeo-Confucian
thinkers.TherelativethinnessofcoveragefortheMingperiodisdue,inpart,totheexistence
ofapartialtranslationofCaseStudiesofMingConfucians(Mingruxue’an明儒學案)(Huang
1987)andWillardPeterson’schapterintheCambridgeHistory(Peterson1998).Ontheother
hand,giventhehistoricalimportanceandongoinglegaciesofZHUXi朱熹(1130–1200)and
WANGYangming王陽明(1472–1529),itwasdecidedtodevotetwoessaystothemeach.
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