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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Wade-Giles/Pinyin Conversion Table | |
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Apologia | |
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Some Uncommon Assumptions | |
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An Immanental Cosmos | |
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Conceptual Polarity | |
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Tradition as Interpretive Context | |
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"At fifteen my heart-and-mind were set upon learning. . . ." | |
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The Conditions of Thinking | |
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Learning (hs�eh) | |
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Reflecting (ssu) | |
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Realizing (chih) | |
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Living up to One's Word (hsin) | |
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An Illustration: The Book of Songs | |
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". . . at thirty I took my stance. . . ." | |
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Personal Articulation: Some Alternatives | |
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The Mutuality of Ritual Action (li) and Signification (yi) | |
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Ritual Action (li) | |
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Signification (yi) | |
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The Authoritative Person | |
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Jen as Authoritative Person | |
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Jen and Person Making | |
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An Illustration: Po I and Shu Ch'i | |
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". . . at forty I was no longer of two minds. . . " | |
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The Primacy of Aesthetic Order | |
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The Aesthetics of Praxis | |
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The Masses (min) | |
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Min and Jen | |
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Individual Absoluteness and Individual Relativity | |
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Effecting Sociopolitical Order (cheng) | |
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Cheng and Cheng | |
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Law and Ritual Action: Hsing , Fa and Li | |
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Shame (ch'ih) and Guilt (tsui) | |
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The Exemplary Person: Ch�n Tzu | |
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The Ch�n Tzu as Model | |
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". . . at fifty I realized the ming of t'ien. . . " | |
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The Question of Confucius' Cosmology | |
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T'ien and T'ien Ming | |
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The Historical Development of T'ien | |
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T'ien and Transcendence | |
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T'ien Ming | |
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Te | |
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A Characterization of Te from Early Literature | |
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Te A Philosophic Reconstruction | |
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Tao | |
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Confucius' Understanding of Tao | |
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Tao and Transcendence | |
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T'ien-jen | |
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Field and Focus | |
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Confucian Religiousness | |
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Confucian Cosmology as Ars Contextualis | |
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". . . at sixty my ear was attuned. . . " | |
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The Centrality of Communication | |
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Sage (sheng jen): A Philological and Literary Analysi | |
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The Sage and the Ordering of Names (cheng ming) | |
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The Aesthetic Character of Classical Chinese | |
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Cheng Ming : The Ordering of Names | |
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The Sage as Virtuoso | |
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Shu : The Unifying Thread | |
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Shu as "Deference" | |
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The Language of Deference | |
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The Sage as Master of Communication | |
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Allusive Analogy | |
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Thinking as Attunement | |
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". . . and at seventy I could give my heart-and-mind free rein without overstepping the mark." | |
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The Failings of Confucius | |
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Opportunities for Engagement | |
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Invitation to a Future | |
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Endnotes | |
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Bibliography of Works Cited | |
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Finding List for Passages from the Analects | |
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Index | |