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Preface | |
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List of Dates | |
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Chinese Philosophy | |
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Origins of Chinese Philosophy | |
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Features of Chinese Philosophy | |
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Self Cultivation | |
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Understanding the Self: Relationships and Contexts | |
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Conceptions of Harmony | |
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Conceptions of Change | |
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The Philosophy of the Yijing (The Book of Changes) | |
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Thinking Philosophically | |
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Confucius and the Confucian Concepts Ren and Li | |
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Reading the Analects | |
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Ren: Humaneness | |
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Ren as Love | |
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Ren, the Confucian Golden Rule | |
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Ren and the Cultivation of Special Relationships | |
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Ren as Ethical Wisdom | |
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Li: Behavioural Propriety | |
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Ren and Li | |
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Ren is Fundamental | |
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Li is Fundamental | |
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Ren and Li are Interdependent Concepts | |
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Ren and Li in Contemporary Philosophical Debates | |
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The Cultivation of Humanity in Confucian Philosophy: Mencius and Xunzi | |
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Mencius: The Cultivation of Human Nature | |
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Xunzi: The Regulation of Human Behaviour | |
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Li (Appropriate Behaviour) and Fa (Standards and Penal Law) | |
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Zhengming: Regulating Society with Prescribed Titles | |
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The Way of Heaven and the Way of Humanity | |
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Personal Cultivation and Social Development | |
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Character Development and the Cultivation of Skills | |
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Early Mohist Philosophy | |
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Texts and Themes | |
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The Essays | |
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Maximising the Collective Good | |
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Working with Standards | |
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Early Daoist Philosophy: The Dao De Jing as a Metaphysical Treatise | |
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The Origins of Daoist Philosophy and the Early Daoist Texts | |
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Dao as Reality: the Search for a New Reality | |
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Opposites: Contrast and Complementation | |
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De and the Integrity of the Individual | |
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Early Daoist Philosophy: Dao, Language and Society | |
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Dao, Language and Indoctrination | |
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Wuwei | |
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Wuwei and Government | |
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Wuwei and Learning | |
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The Ethics of Ziran and Wuwei | |
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The Mingjia and the Later Mohists | |
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The Mingjia Debates | |
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Hui Shi | |
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Gongsun Long | |
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The Later Mohists | |
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Argumentation and Disputation: Bian | |
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Language, Names and Propositions | |
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Scientific Discussions | |
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Practising Jianai: Utilitarian Morality | |
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Philosophy of Language in Early China | |
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Zhuangzi's Philosophy | |
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Epistemological Questions in the Qiwu Lun | |
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Interpretations of Zhuangzi's Scepticism | |
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Cultivating Knack | |
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The Implications of the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi | |
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Legalist Philosophy | |
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Three Basic Themes: Penal Law, Technique and Power | |
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Fa: Standards and Penal Law | |
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Shu: The Technique of Managing the Bureaucracy | |
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Shi: Power | |
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Han Fei, the Great Synthesiser | |
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Debates in Legalist Philosophy | |
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Human Nature | |
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Citizenry: the Role of the Common People | |
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Best Man and Best Laws | |
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Bureaucracy | |
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Secrecy, Power and the Control of Knowledge | |
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Government and Human Development | |
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The Yijing and its Place in Chinese Philosophy | |
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The Text and Commentaries | |
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Comprehensive Synthesis and Correlative Thinking during the Han | |
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Correlative Thinking: the Spirit of the Yijing | |
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The Primacy of Observation | |
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A Holistic, All-encompassing Perspective | |
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A Dialectical and Complementary Approach to Dualisms | |
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Correlative Thinking and Resonance | |
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An Interpretive Approach to the Meanings of the Hexagrams and Correspondences | |
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Constant Movement Marked by the Inevitability of Change | |
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The Action-guiding Nature of the Judgements | |
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The Impact of the Yijing | |
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Chinese Buddhism | |
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Basic Tenets of Buddhist Thought | |
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The Introduction of Buddhism into China | |
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Chinese Buddhist Doctrines during the fifth and sixth centuries CE | |
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Three Treatise (San Lun) Buddhism | |
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Consciousness-Only (Wei Shi) Buddhism | |
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Tian Tai Buddhism | |
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Flower Garland (Hua Yan) Buddhism | |
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Chan Buddhism | |
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Chinese Buddhism | |
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Postscript | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |