The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue

by Allan, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780791433867
• ISBN10: 0791433862
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(28)
The Sources	5	(5)
Root Metaphors and Conceptual Schemes	10	(8)
Early Chinese Religion	18	(5)
Water and Plant Life	23	(3)
Procedure	26	(3)
Water	29	(34)
Shui, ``Water''	32	(3)
Water with a Source Flows Continuously	35	(4)
Water Flows along a Course	39	(2)
Water Flows Downward	41	(5)
Water Carries Detritus	46	(1)
Soft and Weak, Yielding, and Uncontending	47	(2)
Water Takes Any Shape	49	(1)
Still Water Becomes Level	49	(1)
Still Water Clears Itself of Sediment and Becomes Reflective	50	(3)
Water is Difficult to See	53	(1)
Mountains and Rivers	54	(3)
Water and Fire	57	(6)
The Way and Other Ideas	63	(30)
The ``Way'' (Dao)	66	(4)
The Analects and the Mencius	70	(3)
The Laozi and the Zhuangzi	73	(6)
``Doing Nothing'' (Wuwei)	79	(6)
The Mind/Heart (Xin)	85	(2)
``Breath,'' ``Vapor,'' ``Vital Energy'' (Qi)	87	(6)
Sprouts of Virtue	93	(30)
The Myriad Living Things (Wan Wu)	96	(5)
Virtue or Inner Power (De)	101	(6)
Nature (Xing)	107	(4)
The ``Shoots'' (Cai) (Original Material of Natural Endowment)	111	(2)
The Sprouts (Duan) of The Mind/Heart	113	(2)
Humaneness (Ren)	115	(1)
That which Is So of Itself (Ziran)	115	(2)
The Artificial and the Natural (Wei and Xing)	117	(6)
The Philosophers	123	(26)
The Analects	128	(2)
The Mencius	130	(6)
The Laozi Daodejing	136	(7)
The Zhuangzi	143	(3)
Conclusion	146	(3)
Notes	149	(10)
Bibliography	159	(6)
Chinese Texts	165	(2)
Index of Translations from Chinese Texts	167	(4)
Index of Chinese Terms	171	(4)
Subject Index	175