Neo–Confucianism – Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality
Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality
Samenvatting
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
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Acknowledgments xi</p>
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>Part I Neo –Confucian Metaphysics: From Cosmology to Ontology 29</p>
<p>1 From Nothingness to Infinity: The Origin of Zhou Dunyi s Cosmology 31</p>
<p>2 The Basic Constituent of Things: Zhang Zai s Monist Theory of Qi 61</p>
<p>3 Cheng Zhu School s Normative Realism: The Principle of the Universe 85</p>
<p>4 Wang Fuzhi s Theory of Principle Inherent in Qi 103</p>
<p>Part II Human Nature, Human Mind, and the Foundation of Human Morality 123</p>
<p>5 Zhu Xi s Internal Moral Realism: Human Nature Is Principle 125</p>
<p>6 Lu Xiangshan and Wang Yangming s Doctrine of Mind Is Principle 139</p>
<p>7 Wang Fuzhi s Theory of Daily Renewal of Human Nature and His Moral Psychology 157</p>
<p>Part III The Cultivation of Virtue, Moral Personality, and the Construction of a Moral World 181</p>
<p>8 Zhang Zai on Cultivating Moral Personality 183</p>
<p>9 The Cheng Brothers Globaist Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 205</p>
<p>10 Zhu Xi s Methodology for Cultivating Sagehood: Moral Cognitivism and Ethical Rationalism 227</p>
<p>11 Wang Yangming s Intuitionist Model of Innate Moral Sense and Moral Reflexivism 245</p>
<p>12 Constructing a Moral World: Wang Fuzhi s Social Sentimentalism 265</p>
<p>References 285</p>
<p>Index 301</p>