John Dewey and Confucian Thought

List of Illustrations
Interlude
Dewey's Chinese Dinners

Part I.

1. John Dewey and Intra-cultural Naturalism
Dissolving the Blank Slate
Humanism and Intra-cultural Philosophy
Continuity and Common Sense
Culture and the "Return Wave"
Cultural Relations and Reconstruction

2. Education and Tradition
Learning (xue ¿) and Personhood
Dewey Arrives in China
Education and Its Reach
Learning and Thinking
The Dao ¿ of Tradition

3. Custom and Reconstruction
Breakthroughs in China
Li ¿ and Custom
Toward a "Social Philosophy," Part One
Custom and Reflection
Ren ¿ and Human Association

4. Pluralism and Democracy
Democracy vs. The Melting Pot
Guojia ¿¿ and the "Great Community"
Three Complimentary Studies
Toward a "Social Philosophy," Part Two
Dewey Leaves China

Part II

5. Roles and Exemplars
The Analects as Virtue Ethics
Exemplarism and the Denotative Method
Role Ethics and Human Nature
Hitting the Mark (zhong ¿)
Morality is Social

6. Humans and Nature
Naturalizing Heaven
Spiritualizing Nature
Understanding Human Nature
The Goodness (shan ¿) of Human Nature
Nature and Normality

7. Harmony and Growth
Family and Human Nature
The Norm of Harmony (he ¿)
The Meaning of Growth
Family Experience and Non-Dualism
Culture and Adaptation

8. Integration and Religiousness
Integration (cheng ¿) and Adjustment
Recovering the Forfeiture
Ideals and the Actual
Communion and the Human Spirit
Returning to China

Notes
Works Cited
Index