Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Dates
- 1 Chinese Philosophy
- 2 Confucius and the Confucian Concepts Ren and Li
- 3 The Cultivation of Humanity in Confucian Philosophy: Mencius and Xunzi
- 4 Early Mohist Philosophy
- 5 Early Daoist Philosophy: The Dao De Jing as a Metaphysical Treatise
- 6 Early Daoist Philosophy: Dao, Language and Society
- 7 The Mingjia and the Later Mohists
- 8 Zhuangzi's Philosophy
- 9 Legalist Philosophy
- 10 The Yijing and its Place in Chinese Philosophy
- 11 Chinese Buddhism
- Postscript
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Dates
- 1 Chinese Philosophy
- 2 Confucius and the Confucian Concepts Ren and Li
- 3 The Cultivation of Humanity in Confucian Philosophy: Mencius and Xunzi
- 4 Early Mohist Philosophy
- 5 Early Daoist Philosophy: The Dao De Jing as a Metaphysical Treatise
- 6 Early Daoist Philosophy: Dao, Language and Society
- 7 The Mingjia and the Later Mohists
- 8 Zhuangzi's Philosophy
- 9 Legalist Philosophy
- 10 The Yijing and its Place in Chinese Philosophy
- 11 Chinese Buddhism
- Postscript
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book covers the different philosophical traditions in early Chinese philosophy, focusing on their concepts, themes, reasoning and argumentative methods. It introduces readers to fundamental ideas in the different traditions, debates among thinkers, cross-influences between traditions, as well as interpretive theories about these ideas, including those of contemporary scholars. The chapters are organised to reflect the chronological development of Chinese philosophies, as far as this is possible. A List of Dates is provided at the outset to set out important chronological information about selected thinkers and how they are placed in relation to other thinkers. This list is selective and brief, listing only those thinkers and periods that are discussed in the book. The at-a-glance table should help the reader place thinkers in their historical context in relation to other thinkers. Dates are also included in the text in places where they are integral to the specific point being made.
A short list of Suggestions for Further Reading is provided at the end of each chapter. These are the most important primary and secondary sources for a student in Chinese philosophy to be familiar with. A more extended Bibliography is included at the end of the book. The items here, set out in two separate lists, Primary Texts and Secondary Sources, provide a more extended reading list. The Glossary at the end of the book is set out in three sections comprising Texts, Names and Concepts and Themes.
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- An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008