Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 19, 2017 - Philosophy - 328 pages
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Solidly grounded in Chinese primary sources, Neo Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality engages the latest global scholarship to provide an innovative, rigorous, and clear articulation of neo-Confucianism and its application to Western philosophy.

  • Contextualizes neo-Confucianism for contemporary analytic philosophy by engaging with today’s philosophical questions and debates
  • Based on the most recent and influential scholarship on neo-Confucianism, and supported by primary texts in Chinese and cross-cultural secondary literature
  • Presents a cohesive analysis of neo-Confucianism by investigating the metaphysical foundations of neo-Confucian perspectives on the relationship between human nature, human mind, and morality
  • Offers innovative interpretations of neo-Confucian terminology and examines the ideas of eight major philosophers, from Zhou Dunyi and Cheng-Zhu to Zhang Zai and Wang Fuzhi
  • Approaches neo-Confucian concepts in an penetrating yet accessible way
 

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Contents

Section 1
36
Section 2
61
Section 3
85
Section 4
103
Section 5
125
Section 6
139
Section 7
157
Section 8
183
Section 9
205
Section 10
227
Section 11
245
Section 12
265
Section 13
285

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According to Wang altruistic argues behavior Chan Chapter Cheng brothers Cheng Hao Cheng Yi cognitive conception concrete things Confucian contemporary cosmic Daodejing Daoist existence external formless function heaven and earth heavenly principle Huainanzi human desires human mind human nature individual’s innate Ivanhoe Laozi Laozi’s Liangzhi Lu Xiangshan manifested Mencius mental metaphysics mind’s moral agent moral essence moral judgment moral knowledge moral personality moral principle moral realism moral sentiments moral truths myriad things natural emotions neo‐Confucianism nonbeing normative nothingness notion objects one’s mind one’s moral ontological particular principles particular things people’s Pihlström primordial qi realm reverence right and wrong sagehood sages sense simply social socio‐cognitive substance supreme ultimate supreme vacuity Taiji theory tion universe virtue ethics Wang Fuzhi Wang Yangming words wuji Xiangshan and Wang xing Yijing yin and yang Zai’s Zhang Zai Zhou Dunyi’s Zhou’s Zhu Xi Zhu Xi’s moral Zhuangzi

About the author (2017)

JeeLoo Liu is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism (Wiley-Blackwell 2006), co-editor of Consciousness and the Self (2012), and co-editor of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (2014). She is currently the Executive Director of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy.

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TitleNeo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality
AuthorJeeLoo Liu
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2017
ISBN1118619412, 9781118619414
Length328 pages
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Philosophy / Eastern
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