JeeLoo Liu 
Neo-Confucianism [EPUB ebook] 
Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I Neo?]Confucian Metaphysics: From Cosmology to Ontology 29

1 From Nothingness to Infinity: The Origin of Zhou Dunyi’s Cosmology 31

2 The Basic Constituent of Things: Zhang Zai’s Monist Theory of Qi 61

3 Cheng–Zhu School’s Normative Realism: The Principle of the Universe 85

4 Wang Fuzhi’s Theory of Principle Inherent in Qi 103

Part II Human Nature, Human Mind, and the Foundation of Human Morality 123

5 Zhu Xi’s Internal Moral Realism: Human Nature Is Principle 125

6 Lu Xiangshan and Wang Yangming’s Doctrine of Mind Is Principle 139

7 Wang Fuzhi’s Theory of Daily Renewal of Human Nature and His Moral Psychology 157

Part III The Cultivation of Virtue, Moral Personality, and the Construction of a Moral World 181

8 Zhang Zai on Cultivating Moral Personality 183

9 The Cheng Brothers’ Globaist Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 205

10 Zhu Xi’s Methodology for Cultivating Sagehood: Moral Cognitivism and Ethical Rationalism 227

11 Wang Yangming’;s Intuitionist Model of Innate Moral Sense and Moral Reflexivism 245

12 Constructing a Moral World: Wang Fuzhi’s Social Sentimentalism 265

References 285

Index 301

Jee Loo 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.