Humanity and Self-Cultivation

by Tu, Wei-Ming; Ming, Tu Wei; TU, WEIMING

• ISBN13: 9780887273179
• ISBN10: 0887273173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Cheng & Tsui Co

Summary

This first paperback edition of a renowned collection of essays by noted scholar of Chinese history and philosophy Tu Wei-ming includes a new introductory essay by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of

Author Biography

Tu Wei-ming is professor of Chinese history and philosophy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. I
Preface	p. XXII
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xvii
Classical Confucian Ideas
The creative tension Between Jen and Li	p. 5
Li as Process of Humanization	p. 17
The Confucian Perception of Adulthood	p. 35
On the Mencian Perception of Moral Self-Development	p. 57
Neo-Confucian Modes of Thinking
The Neo-Confucian Concept of Man	p. 71
The Unity of Knowing and Acting: From a Neo-Confucian Perspective	p. 83
"Inner Experience": The Basis of Creativity in Neo-Confucian Thinking	p. 102
Mind and Human Nature (review article)	p. 111
Reconstituting the Confucian Tradition (review article)	p. 119
Subjectivity and Ontological Reality: An Interpretation of Wang Yang-ming's Mode of Thinking	p. 138
An Inquiry into Wang Yang-ming's Four-Sentence Teaching	p. 162
Transformational Thinking as Philosophy (review article)	p. 179
Yen Yuan: From Inner Experience to Lived Concreteness	p. 186
Modern Confucian Symbolism
Hsiung Shih-li's Quest for Authentic Existence	p. 219
Confucianism: Symbol and Substance in Recent Times	p. 257
Glossary	p. 297
Selected Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 345
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