Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Makeham, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy ; 1
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Religious Studies, general.; Philosophy of Religion.; History of Philosophy.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This Companion is the first volume to provide a comprehensive introduction, in accessible English, to the Neo-Confucian philosophical thought of representative Chinese thinkers from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries. It brings together nineteen essays on a range of topics in Neo-Confucian phi...

Table of Contents:

• Zhou Dunyi’s Philosophy of the Supreme Polarity
• Shao Yong’s Numerological-Cosmological System
• Zhang Zai’s Theory of Vital Energy
• Cheng Yi’s Moral Philosophy
• The Thesis of Single-Rootedness in the Thought of Cheng Hao
• Hu Hong’s Philosophy
• Zhang Shi’s Philosophical Perspectives on Human Nature, Heart/Mind, Humaneness, and the Supreme Ultimate
• Zhu Xi’s Cosmology
• Zhu Xi’s Moral Psychology
• Lü Zuqian’s Political Philosophy
• Neo-Confucian Philosophy and Genre: The Philosophical Writings of Chen Chun and Zhen Dexiu
• Lu Xiangshan’s Ethical Philosophy
• “The Four Masters of Mingzhou”: Transmission and Innovation among the Disciples of Lu Jiuyuan (Xiangshan)
• Metaphysics and the Basis of Morality in the Philosophy of Wang Yangming
• Wang Yangming as a Virtue Ethicist
• Liu Zongzhou on Self-Cultivation
• Wang Fuzhi’s Philosophy of Principle (Li) Inherent in Qi
• Li Guangdi and the Philosophy of Human Nature
• Dai Zhen on Human Nature and Moral Cultivation.