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