xxv, 856 pages 25 cm

Anthology tracing the entire history of Chinese philosophy from Confucianism to contemporary Communism

Includes bibliographical references (pages 793-811)

Part I -- Chronology of dynasties -- Chronology of philosophers -- 1. The growth of humanism -- Ancestors and the Lord on High -- The mandate of heaven, ancestors and virtue -- The "Great Norm" -- Spirits, the soul and immortality -- 2. The humanism of Confucius -- Selections from the Analects -- 3. Idealistic Confucianism: Mencius -- The Book of Mencius: Book 6, part 1 -- Additional selections -- 4. Moral and social programs: The Great Learning -- 5. Spiritual dimensions: The Doctrine of the Mean -- 6. Naturalistic Confucianism: Hsun Tzu -- "On Nature" -- "On the Rectification of Names" -- "The Nature of Man is Evil" -- 7. The natural way of Lao Tzu -- The Lao-Tzu (Tao-te ching) -- 8. The mystical way of Chuang Tzu -- "The Equality of Things" -- "The Great Teacher" -- Additional selections: (1) The nature and reality of Tao -- (2) Tao everywhere -- (3) Constant flux -- (4) Evolution -- (5) Tao as transformation and one -- (6) Nature vs. man -- (7) Calmness of mind -- (8) Sageliness and kingliness -- (9) The equality of life and death -- (10) Subjectivity -- (11) The inner spirit -- 9. Mo Tzu's doctrines of universal love, heaven and social welfare -- A. "Universal Love, pt. 2" -- "The Will of Heaven, pt. 1" -- "Attack on Fatalism, pt. 1" -- Additional selections: (1) Utilitarianism -- (2) The condemnation of war -- (3) Condemnation of wasteful musical activities -- (4) Condemnation of elaborate funerals -- (5) Elevating the worthy to government positions -- (6) Agreement with the Superior -- 10. Debates on metaphysical concepts: Logicians -- A. paradoxes of Hui Shih and the Debaters -- B. Kung-sun Lung Tzu (1) "On the White Horse" -- (2) "On Marks (chih) and Things" -- (3) "On the Explanation of Change" -- (4) "On Hardness and Whiteness" -- (5) "On Names and Actuality" -- 11. The Yin Yang School -- (1) Tsou Yen -- (2) Yin and Yang -- (3) The Five Agents -- 12. Legalism -- (1) Synthesis of legalistic doctrine -- (2) Interpretations of Tao -- 13. Philosophy of change -- (1) Selections from the commentaries -- (2) Selections from the "Appended Remarks," pt. 1 -- (3) Selections from the "Appended Remarks,"

pt. 2 -- (4) Selections from "Remarks on Certain Tri-grams" -- 14. Yin Yang Confuciansim: Tung Chung-shu -- A.A profound examination o names and appellations -- B. Meaning of the Five Agents -- C. "The Correspondence of Man and the Numerical Categories of Heaven" -- D. "Things of the Same Kind Activate Each Other" -- E. Additional selections: (1) The Origin (Yuan) -- (2) Humanity and righteousness -- (3) Humanity and wisdom -- (4) Historical cycles -- 15. Taoistic Confucianism: Yang Hsiung -- 16. The Naturalism of Wang Ch'ung -- A. "On Original Nature" -- B. "On Spontaneity" -- C. "A Treatise on Death" -- D. Additional selections: (1) Accident vs. necessity -- (2) Strange phenomena -- (3) Fate -- (4) The equality of past and present -- 17. Taoism of Huai-nan Tzu -- A. The "Yang Chu Chapter" -- B. The Lieh Tzu: (1) Skepticism -- (2) Fatalism -- 19. Neo-Taoism -- (1) Wang Pi's Simple Exemplifications of the Principles of the Book of Changes -- (2) Wang Pi's Commentary on the Book of Changes -- (3) Wang Pi's Commentary on the Lao Tzu -- (4) Ho Yen's Treatise on Tao -- (5) Ho Yen's Treatise on the Nameless -- (6) Kui Hsaing's Commentary on the Chuang Tzu -- 20. Seven early Buddhist schools -- 21. Seng-chao's Doctrine of Reality -- (1) "Immutability of Things" -- (2) "Emptiness of the Unreal" -- 22. Philosophy of emptiness: Chi-tsang of the Three-Treatise School -- (1) Two levels of truth -- (2) Causes and effects -- (3) Four subsidiary causes -- (4) Existence, nonexistence, and emptiness -- (5) Substance and function -- 23. Buddhist idealism: Hsuan-tsang of the Consciousness-Only School -- (1) Nonexistence of the Self -- (2) nonexistence of Dharmas -- (3) First transformation of consciousness -- (4) Second transformation of consciousness -- (5) Third transformation of consciousness -- (6) Consciousness-only -- (7) Nine objections to the consciousness-only doctrine and their answers -- (8) Three natures of being, three natures of non-being and thusness -- 24. T'ien-t'ai philosophy of perfect harmony (1) Various aspects of the mind -- (2) Three ages as an instant; Substance and function -- (3) Functions of concentration and insight -- 25. One-and-all philosophy: Fa-tsang of the Hua-yen School -- A. Treatise on the Golden Lion -- B. Hundred Gates to the Sea of Ideas of the Flowery Splendor Scripture -- (1) "All that come into existence through causation end together in quiescence" -- (2) "Harmonious Combination and Spontaneity" -- 26. Zen (Ch'an) School of Sudden Enlightenment -- A. Platform Scripture -- B. Recorded Conversations of Shen-hui -- C. Recorded Conversations of Zen Master I-hsuan -- 27. Revival of Confucianism: Han Yu and Li Ao -- (1) An Inquiry on Human Nature -- (2) An Inquiry on the Way (Tao) -- (3) The Recovery of the Nature -- 28. The Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics in Chou Tun-I -- (1) An Explanation of the Diagram of the Great Ultimate -- (2) Penetrating the Book of Changes -- 29. Numerical and objective tendencies in Shao Yung -- Supreme Principles Governing the World

30. Chang Tsai's philosophy of material force -- A. The Western Inscription -- B. Correcting Youthful Ignorance: (1) "Great Harmony" -- (2) "Enlightenment Resulting from Sincerity" -- 31. The idealistic tendency in Ch'eng Hao -- (1) "On Understanding the Nature of Jen (Humanity)" -- (2) "Reply to Master Heng-ch'u's Letter on Calming Human Nature" -- (3) Selected sayings -- 32. The rationalistic tendency in Ch'eng I -- (1) "A Treatise on What Yen Tzu Loved to Learn" -- (2) "Letters in Reply to Yang Shih's Letter on the Western Inscription," -- Selected sayings -- 33. The unity of mind and principle in Lu Hsiang-shan -- 34. Great synthesis in Chu His -- A. Treatises: (1) "A Treatise on Jen," -- (2) "A Treatise on Che'eng Ming-tao's Discourse on the Nature," -- (3) "First Letter to the Gentlemen of Hunan on Equilibrium and Harmony," -- (4) "A Treatise on the Examination of the Mind," -- B. Complete Works: (1) Moral Cultivation -- (2) Relation between the Nature of Man and Things and Their Destiny -- (3) Nature of Man and Things -- (4) Nature of man and the Nature of Things Compared -- (5) Physical Nature -- (6) Destiny -- (7) Mind -- (8) T Mind, Nature and Feelings -- (9) Jen -- (10) Principle (Li) and Material Force (Ch'i) -- (11) Great Ultimate -- (12) Heaven and Earth -- (13) Spiritual Beings and Spiritual Forces -- (14) Buddhism -- 35. Dynamic idealism in Wang Yang-ming -- A. Inquiry on the Great Learning -- B. Instructions for Practical Living -- 36. The materialism of Wang Fu-chih -- (1) World of concrete things -- (2) Substance and function -- (3) Being and non-being -- (4) Principle and material force -- (5) Unceasing growth and man's nature and destiny -- (6) principle of nature and human desires -- (7) History and government -- 37. Practical Confucianism in Yen Yuan -- (1) In defense of physical nature -- (2) The identity of principle and material force -- (3) Learning through experience -- 38. Tai Chen's philosophy of principle as order -- (1) On principle (Li) -- (2) On nature -- (3) On capacity -- (4) On humanity, righteousness, propriety and wisdom -- (5) On the variety of circumstances -- 39. K'ang Yu-wei's philosophy of Great Unity -- (1) The Three Ages -- (2) Confuc

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