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| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Wade-Giles/Pinyin Conversion Table | |
| Apologia | |
| Some Uncommon Assumptions | |
| An Immanental Cosmos | |
| Conceptual Polarity | |
| Tradition as Interpretive Context | |
| "At fifteen my heart-and-mind were set upon learning. . . ." | |
| The Conditions of Thinking | |
| Learning (hsüeh) | |
| Reflecting (ssu) | |
| Realizing (chih) | |
| Living up to One's Word (hsin) | |
| An Illustration: The Book of Songs | |
| ". . . at thirty I took my stance. . . ." | |
| Personal Articulation: Some Alternatives | |
| The Mutuality of Ritual Action (li) and Signification (yi) | |
| Ritual Action (li) | |
| Signification (yi) | |
| The Authoritative Person | |
| Jen as Authoritative Person | |
| Jen and Person Making | |
| An Illustration: Po I and Shu Ch'i | |
| ". . . at forty I was no longer of two minds. . . " | |
| The Primacy of Aesthetic Order | |
| The Aesthetics of Praxis | |
| The Masses (min) | |
| Min and Jen | |
| Individual Absoluteness and Individual Relativity | |
| Effecting Sociopolitical Order (cheng) | |
| Cheng and Cheng | |
| Law and Ritual Action: Hsing , Fa and Li | |
| Shame (ch'ih) and Guilt (tsui) | |
| The Exemplary Person: Chün Tzu | |
| The Chün Tzu as Model | |
| ". . . at fifty I realized the ming of t'ien. . . " | |
| The Question of Confucius' Cosmology | |
| T'ien and T'ien Ming | |
| The Historical Development of T'ien | |
| T'ien and Transcendence | |
| T'ien Ming | |
| Te | |
| A Characterization of Te from Early Literature | |
| Te A Philosophic Reconstruction | |
| Tao | |
| Confucius' Understanding of Tao | |
| Tao and Transcendence | |
| T'ien-jen | |
| Field and Focus | |
| Confucian Religiousness | |
| Confucian Cosmology as Ars Contextualis | |
| ". . . at sixty my ear was attuned. . . " | |
| The Centrality of Communication | |
| Sage (sheng jen): A Philological and Literary Analysi | |
| The Sage and the Ordering of Names (cheng ming) | |
| The Aesthetic Character of Classical Chinese | |
| Cheng Ming : The Ordering of Names | |
| The Sage as Virtuoso | |
| Shu : The Unifying Thread | |
| Shu as "Deference" | |
| The Language of Deference | |
| The Sage as Master of Communication | |
| Allusive Analogy | |
| Thinking as Attunement | |
| ". . . and at seventy I could give my heart-and-mind free rein without overstepping the mark." | |
| The Failings of Confucius | |
| Opportunities for Engagement | |
| Invitation to a Future | |
| Endnotes | |
| Bibliography of Works Cited | |
| Finding List for Passages from the Analects | |
| Index | |
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