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
Innehållsförteckning
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
Om författaren
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.