Description
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy collects new essays by both senior and up and coming contributors, on important texts and figures in the history of Chinese thought. The essays cover both well-known texts such as the Analects and the Zhuangzi as well as many of the lesser-known thinkers in the classical and post-classical Chinese tradition. Most of the chapters focus on thinkers or texts in one of three important historical movements: Classical ("pre-Qin") Chinese philosophy, Chinese Buddhism, and the Confucian response to Buddhism ("neo-Confucianism" broadly construed). The volume provides an accessible point of entry into the more challenging and technical post-classical tradition, including Chinese Buddhism and neo-Confucianism from the Song dynasty onward. Topics covered include ethics and its foundations, politics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, and metaphysics. Each essay presents cutting-edge work on important topics in the Chinese tradition and yet is written for a general philosophical audience.
Table of Contents
PrefaceIntroductionList of contributorsPart I: The Foundations of ethics1. A Theological Voluntarist Consequentialism in the Mozi Hui Chieh Loy2. The Nature of Moral Norms in Xunzi's Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe3. Qing as the Foundation of Xunzi's Naturalist EthicsChenyang Li4. Dai Zhen on the Common Affirmability of Ethical Judgments Justin TiwaldPart II: Ethics and Value5. Well-Being in Early Chinese Philosophy Richard Kim6. Human Nature in the Ethics of Mengzi and Xunzi David Wong7. A Daoist Critique of Morality Chris Fraser8. Harmonizing Chinese Buddhist Ethics Nicholaos Jones9. Moral Failure, Ethical Roles, and Metaphysics in the Great Learning and the Mean Bryan W. Van Norden Part III: Philosophical Psychology10. Virtuous Contempt (wù) in the Analects Hagop Sarkissian11. Kongzi as Therapeutic Philosopher Erin Cline12. Being Spontaneous: Zhuangzi on MasteryKaryn LaiPart IV: Politics13. Dependence and Autonomy in Early Confucianism Aaron Stalnaker14. The Family-State Analogy in the Mengzi Loubna El Amine15. The Dao of Han Fei Eirik Lang HarrisPart V: Metaphysics16. When Buddha Nature was not Buddha Nature: Fo'xing, Shen, and the Birth of a Universal Mind in Early Medieval China Tao Jiang 17. How It All Depends: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Huayan Buddhism Li Kang18. Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Metaphysics of Human Nature: Explanatory, Not Foundational Yong HuangPart VI: Knowledge19. Xunzi and the Authority of Tradition Eric L. Hutton 20. Laozi and Zhu Xi on Knowledge and Virtue May Sim21. Knowing-To in Wang Yangming Waldemar Brys22. Knowledge of Human Nature and Morality in Contemporary Confucianism David ElsteinIndex
