
Disputers of the Tao
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. The Breakdown of the World Order Decreed by Heaven
- 1. A Conservative Reaction: Confucius
- 2. A Radical Reaction: Mo-tzu
- 3. Retreat to Private Life: The Yangists
- 4. Idealisations of the Small Community: the Utopia of Shen-nung
- 5. The Sharpening of Rational Debate: The Sophists
- 6. The Discovery of Subjectivity: Sung Hsing
- II. From Social to Metaphysical Crisis: Heaven Parts from Man
- 1. From Confucius to Mencius: Morality Grounded in Man's Nature as Generated by Heaven
- 2. From Mo-tzu to Later Mohism: Morality Re-grounded in Rational Utility
- 3. From Yangism to Chuang-tzu's Taoism: Reconciliation with Heaven by Return to Spontaneity
- III. Heaven and Man Go Their Own Ways
- 1. Lao-tzu's Taoism: The Art of Ruling by Spontaneity
- 2. Hsun-tzu's Confucianism: Morality as Man's Invention to Control His Nature
- 3. Legalism: An Amoral Science of Statecraft
- 4. Two Political Heresies
- IV. The Reunification of the Empire and of Heaven and Man
- 1. The Cosmologists: Proto-science and modern science
- 2. Syncretism and the Victory of Confucianism
- Appendix 1: A Classification of Chinese Moral Philosophies in Terms of the Quasi-syllogism
- Appendix 2: The Relation of Chinese Thought to the Chinese Language
- Notes
- Romanisation Conversion Table: Wade-Giles/Pinyin
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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