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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 | |