Introduction to classical Chinese philosophy / Bryan W. Van Norden
- Author:
- Van Norden, Bryan W. (Bryan William)
- Published:
- Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, [2011]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2011
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.The Historical Context -- I.Myth -- II.Early History -- III.The Period of the Philosophers -- IV.Timeline -- 2.Kongzi and Confucianism -- I.Kongzi's Social Context and Life -- II.Five Themes of Confucianism -- 1.Happiness in the Everyday World -- 2.Revivalistic Traditionalism -- 3.The Family and Differentiated Caring -- 4.Ritual and Functionalism -- 5.Ethical Cultivation -- 3.Kongzi and Virtue Ethics -- I.Three Normative Theories -- II.Confucianism as Virtue Ethics -- 1.Living Well -- 2.The Virtues -- 3.Ethical Cultivation and Human Nature -- III.Limitations of Confucianism -- IV.Kongzi's Particularism -- 4.Mohist Consequentialism -- I.The Fixed Standard of Consequentialism -- II.Criticisms of Confucianism -- III.Political Philosophy -- IV.Divine Command Theory -- V."Against Fatalism" and Dialectic -- VI."On Ghosts" and Truth -- VII.Historical Significance -- 5.Yang Zhu and Egoism -- I.What Is Egoism? -- 1.Psychological Egoism -- 2.Ethical Egoism -- II.What Is the Nature of a Thing? -- III.Early Debates over Yang Zhu's Way -- IV.The Contemporary Debate -- 6.Mengzi and Human Nature -- I.The Mohists, Profit, and Impartiality -- II.Yang Zhu and Human Nature -- III.The Virtues -- IV.Ethical Cultivation -- V.Cosmology -- VI.Historical Significance -- 7.Language and Paradox in the "School of Names" -- I.Deng Xi and the Origins of the "School" -- II.Hui Shi -- III.Gongsun Long -- IV.The Later Mohists -- 1.Resolving the Paradox of Deng Xi -- 2.Resolving the Paradoxes of Hui Shi -- 3.Resolving the White Horse Paradox -- 4.The New Foundation of Mohist Ethics -- 5.The Limits of Logic -- V.Historical Significance -- 8.The Daodejing and Mysticism -- I.Myth and Reality -- II.Five Themes -- 1.Social Ills and Their Solution -- 2.Nonaction -- 3.The Teaching That Is without Words -- 4.The Way -- 5.Mysticism -- III.Historical Significance -- 9.Zhuangzi's Therapeutic Skepticism and Relativism -- I.Zhuangzi's Context -- II.Skepticism -- III.Relativism -- IV.Detachment in Society, Not from Society -- V.Nonaction -- VI.Doctrine or Therapy? -- VII.Conventional or Radical? -- VIII.Historical Significance -- 10.Xunzi's Confucian Naturalism -- I.Xunzi's Context -- II.Naturalism and Ritual -- III.History and Objectivity -- IV.Human Nature and Psychology -- V.Ethical Cultivation -- VI.Historical Significance -- 11.Han Feizi -- I.Life and Context -- II.Critique of Confucianism -- III.The Five Elements of Han Feizi's Theory of Government -- 1.The Power of Position -- 2.Administrative Methods -- 3.Laws -- 4.The Two Handles of Government -- 5.The Way of the Ruler -- IV.The Question of Amoralism -- V.Historical Significance -- 12.Later Chinese Thought -- I.Qin Dynasty -- II.Han through Six Dynasties -- III.Sui through the Ming -- IV.Qing through Mao Zedong -- V.China Today and Tomorrow -- APPENDIX A Hermeneutics, or How to Read a Text -- I.Faith and Suspicion -- II."Our" Worldview and "Theirs" -- APPENDIX B The Chinese Language and Writing System -- I.The Five Types of Chinese Characters -- II.Spoken Chinese -- III.Radicals and Dictionaries -- IV.The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis -- V.For Further Reading -- APPENDIX C Kongzi as Systematic Philosopher -- I.The "One Thread" of Analects 4.15 -- II.The "Rectification of Names" of Analects 13.3 -- III.The "Broadening of the Way" of Analects 15.29 -- IV.Conclusion.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781603844680 (pbk.)
1603844686 (pbk.)
9781603844697 (cloth)
1603844694 (cloth) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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