Three Streams Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan

by Ivanhoe, Philip J.

• ISBN13: 9780190492038
• ISBN10: 0190492031
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2016-10-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Philip J. Ivanhoe (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Chair Professor of East Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion at City University of Hong Kong, where he also serves as director of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (CEACOP), the Laboratory on Korean Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives, and the project Eastern and Western Conceptions of Oneness, Virtue, and Human Happiness. He specializes in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion and its potential for contemporary ethics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction

Part I: China
Preface: Two Schools of neo-Confucianism
Chapter One: Cheng Hao (1032-85)
Chapter Two: Cheng Yi (1033-1107)
Chapter Three: Dai Zhen (1722-1776)
Summary: Philology, Psychology, and Anthropology

Part II: Korea
Preface: The Great Debates of Korean Confucianism
Chapter Four: The Four-Seven Debate
Chapter Five: The Horak Debate
Chapter Six: Jeong Yakyong (1762-1836)
Summary: Experience, Evidence, and Motivation

Part III: Japan
Preface: Confucianism, Shinto, and Bushido
Chapter Seven: Nakae Toju (1608-48)
Chapter Eight: Yamazaki Ansai (1619-1682)
Chapter Nine: Ito Jinsai (1627-1705)
Summary: Duty, Love, and Heaven

Conclusion
Works Cited
Index