A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy / Roger T. Ames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Roger T., 1947- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Confucian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Confucian Natural Cosmology: An Interpretive Context

Interpretive Assumptions

Philosophy of Culture: Change and Persistence

Distinguishing Confucian Cosmology from Greek Transcendentalism

Power and Creativity

Contrasting Confucian Zoetology with Greek Ontology

A Chinese Cosmology with "Its Own Causality and Its Own Logic"

Shi 勢: An Aesthetic Alternative to the Logic of "Things" and to an "External Causality"

Genealogical Cosmogony and Its "Epistemogony"

Qi 氣 as a Moral Cosmology

A Thick Generalization: Distinguishing "Events" from "Objects"

A Thick Generalization: Distinguishing "Phases" from "Elements"

Vital Qi 氣 as Functional Structure and Structured Function

A Human "Being" or Human "Becomings"

Defining a World by Association

The Book of Changes 易經: A Cosmological Vocabulary

Tang Junyi 唐君毅 and the Philosophical Implications of a Qi 氣 Cosmology

The Canonical Texts: Selected Passages

I. The Book of Changes (Yijing 易經): A Process Cosmology

II. The Expansive Learning (Daxue 大學): Setting the Confucian Project

The Expansive Learning: Part 1

The Expansive Learning: Part 2

The Expansive Learning: Part 3

III. The Analects (Lunyu ): A Basic Confucian Vocabulary

Cultivating One's Person (xiushen 修 )

III.1 Cherishing Learning (haoxue 好學): A Confucian Philosophy of Education

III.2 A Joyful Wisdom (zhi 知)

III.3 Virtuosity (de 德)

III.4 Doing Your Utmost (zhong 忠) and Making Good on Your Word (xin 信)

III.5 Putting Oneself in the Other's Place Through Dramatic Rehearsal (shu 恕)

Setting the Family Right (qijia 家)

III.6 Reverencing Family (xiao 孝)

III.7 Consummate Conduct/Persons in Roles and Relations (ren 仁)

III.8 Seeking Optimal Appropriateness in Roles and Relations (yi 義)

III.9 Aspiring to Ritual Propriety in Roles and Relations (li 禮)

III.10 The Making of Music (yue 樂)

Bringing Proper Order to the State (zhiguo 治國)

III.11 Using Names Properly (zhengming 正名)

III.12 Exemplary Persons (junzi 君子) and Scholar-Officials (shi 士)

III.13 Harmony as an Optimizing Symbiosis (he 和)

III.14 Making Friends (you 友)

III.15 Governing Properly (zheng 政)

Effecting Peace in the World (pingtianxia 平天下)

III.16 Human Way-Making (rendao 人 )

III.17 Confucius: One Special Person Extending the Proper Way (dao )

III.18 A Family-Centered Religiousness (tian 天)

IV. The Mencius (Mengzi 孟子): Extending the Vocabulary

IV.1 An Interpretive Context for Reading the Mencius

IV.2 Continuing on the Way of Confucius

IV.3 The Vocabulary of Mencius's Moral Sensorium

IV.4 Role Politics and Consummate Governing (renzheng 仁政)

IV.5 Maintaining Tian's Mandate (tianming 天命)

V. The Focusing the Familiar (Zhongyong 中庸): The Highest Expression of the Confucian Project

V.1 Chapter 1: The Confucian Project: "The Continuity Between and Inseparability of the Human and the Cosmic Orders" (tianrenheyi 天人合一)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Ames, Roger T. A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy

ISBN:

9781438493541

1438493541

Publisher Number:

40031940209

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