Mencian hermeneutics : a history of interpretations in China / Chün-chieh Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Junjie, 1946-

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Mencius. Mengzi.

Mencius.

Philosophy, Chinese--To 221 B.C.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

viii, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2001]

Language Note:

Translated from the Chinese.

Contents:

Part 1 The Text, the Man, the Ideas 19

1. Mencius the Man and the Thinker 21

1:1. Mencius the Man 21

1:2. Mencius the Thinker 23

2. Harmonia Mundi in Homo-Mundane, Anthropo-Ecological, and Hsin-ch'i-hsing Unity 28

2:1. Harmonia Mundi 28

2:2. Homo-Mundane Continuum 30

2:3. Anthropo-ecological Interdependence 36

2:4. Hsin-ch'i-hsing Harmony 42

3. Social Dimension: "Rightness"(yi) Versus "Profit"(li) 53

3:2. Historical Background 56

3:3. Yi vs. li Perfected 63

3:4. Impacts Deflected: Yang Chu, Mo Tzu, and Hsun Tzu 70

4. Political Dimension: Populist Government of Familiar Empathy 80

4:2. Ideal Government 81

4:3. Mencius' Political Ideals: A Comparison 93

4:4. Impacts of Mencius' Ideal 95

Part 2 Mencius in Context 103

5. Hermeneutics as Apologetics (I): Hsun Tzu Contra Mencius 105

5:1. The Problem 105

5:2. Hsun Tzu's Pairs of Rhetorical Accusations 110

5:3. Mencius' Hsin and Hsun Tzu 117

5:4. Mencius' Tao and Hsun Tzu 122

5:5. Hsun Tzu's Distortion of Tradition 126

6. Hermeneutics as Apologetics (II): Mind-Body Unity in On Five Activities 130

6:2. Mind-Heart and Body-Self, Divided, Unified 133

6:3. "Deliberation" and "Caution [when] Alone": Mencius' Self-cultivation Developed 144

7. Hermeneutics as Politics: The Sung Debates over the Mencius 155

7:1. Mencius-Controversies: The Why 155

7:2. Mencius-Controversies: The What 159

7:3. Chinese Hermeneutics As Politics 167

8. Hermeneutics as Pilgrimage (I): Impacts on Chu Hsi 172

8:1. Mencius' "Self-cultivation" (2A2) 172

8:2. Chu Hsi's Interpretation 175

8:3. Contra Chu Hsi 178

9. Hermeneutics as Pilgrimage (II): Impacts on Wang Yang-ming 185

9:2. Wang Yang-ming's Mencius-Hermeneutics 187

9:3. Yang-ming Hermeneutics as Pilgrimage 199

9:4. "Contemporary Significance" 204

10. Hermeneutics as Apologetics (III): Tai Chen's Mencian Normativity Within Desire 211

10:1. The Importance of Tai Chen 211

10:2. Meng Tzu Tzu-Yi Shu-Cheng 215

10:3. Tai's Impressive Strengths 216

10:4. Eight Critiques 226

11. Mencius' Encounter with Modernity: T'ang Chun-i, Hsu Fu-kuan, Mou Tsung-san 233

11:2. T'ang, Hsu, and Mou Compared 235

11:3. New Interpretations of Mencius' "Mind-heart Theory" 240

11:4. Mencius' Political Ideals for "Today" 249

Epilogue: Chinese Hermeneutics as Politics, Apologetics, Pilgrimage 255

Appendix A Chronology of Mencian Hermeneutics 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and indexes.

ISBN:

0765801078

OCLC:

47168699