Confucian Propriety and Ritual Learning

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Interpretive Viewpoints and Prejudgments
Subjective Objectivity and Hermeneutic Productivity of Cultural Distance
Chinese Culture, Ritual Propriety, and the Importance of Learning
The Modern Opprobrium of Ritual and the Confucian Tradition

1. First Assemblage: Tradition and Timeliness

From Aversion to Rehabilitation: The Modern Discourse on Tradition
Tradition as Dao ¿: The Early Confucian Approach to Tradition
The Temporal Sequence of Practice and the Chinese Notion of Time
Hitting the Mark: Zhong ¿, Shizhong ¿¿, and Zhongyong ¿¿

2. Second Assemblage: From Reason to Intelligence

Education and/or Indoctrination: A Borderless Distinction
Reason I: Max Weber's Paradox
Reason II: The Quest for Reason in China
Reason III: Reasonable Alternatives
Reason IV: The Interplay of Li ¿, Yi ¿, and Li ¿

3. Third Assemblage: Education as Humanization

Education through Experience: Reconciling Tradition and Reason
Aesthetic Consciousness and Ritual Knowledge
Internalization and Efficacy: Li ¿, Yue ¿, De ¿, and Ren ¿
Education as Exhortation and Personal Cultivation

Concluding Remarks
Notes
Literature Cited
Index