Chinese Philosophy in Excavated Early Texts

by Cheng, Chung-Ying; Perkins, Franklin

• ISBN13: 9781444349894
• ISBN10: 1444349899
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-25
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The nine papers of this Supplement on these significant issues and important ideas are closely accentuated and critically discussed by well-established specialists, philosophers and historians, from various relevant disciplines of study.

Author Biography

Chung-ying Cheng is a Taiwanese philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He received his BA in 1956 from National Taiwan University, his MA in 1958 from University of Washington, and PhD in 1964 from Harvard University.

Professor Cheng's research interests are in the areas of Chinese logic, the I-Ching and the origins of Chinese philosophy, Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy, the onto-hermeneutics of Eastern and Western philosophy, and Chan (Zen) philosophy. Recently he has specifically worked on the philosophy of c-management and Confucian Bio-Ethics as they relate to the Chinese tradition, and on how Chinese culture relates to world culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Chinese Philosophy in Excavated Early Texts (CHUNG-YING CHENG).

The Tsinghua: Bamboo Strips and Ancient Chinese Civilization (LI XUEQIN AND LIU GUOZHONG).

Recontextualizing Xing: Self-Cultivation and Human Nature in the Guodian Texts (FRANKLIN PERKINS)

The Guodian Bamboo Slips and Confucian Theories of Human Nature (CHEN LAI).

Theodicies of Discontinuity: Domesticating Energies and Dispositions in Early China (MICHAEL PUETT)

Abdication and Utopian Vision in the Bamboo Slip Manuscript, Rongchengshi (SARAH ALLAN).

Returning to “Zisi”: The Confucian Theory of the Lineage of the Way (LIANG TAO).

“San De” and Warring States Views on Heavenly Retribution (SCOTT COOK).

Divination and Autonomy: New Perspectives from Excavated Texts (LISA RAPHALS).

On Internal Onto-Genesis of Virtuous Actions in the Wu Xing Pian (CHUNG-YING CHENG).