New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy

Chung-ying Cheng is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is also the founder of the International Society of Chinese Philosophy and the Journal of Chinese Philosophy.

"This is a broad and thoughtful survey of many of the leading aspects of Neo-Confucian thought, written by one of the outstanding representatives of this tradition today. It is central to any modern study of Chinese philosophy." — Edmund Leites, Queens College of City University of New York"Cheng is one of two major Chinese-American philosophers who are attempting to build a world philosophy in the Western context by using and reconstructing the Chinese philosophic tradition. Cheng is brilliant at it — erudite, cultured, original, and highly imaginative. This collection shows him at his best." — Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University"What I like most about this book is the thoroughness and philosophical acumen with which the author attacks each topic. Cheng certainly has a profound understanding of his subject matter. Each chapter, which forms a self-contained study of one important phase or aspect of Chinese or Confucian/Neo-Confucian philosophy, is itself a solid piece of scholarship." — Lik Kuen Tong, Fairfield University

• PrefaceForeword by Robert Cummings Neville Introduction: Chinese Philosophy and Confucian/Neo-Confucian Thinking: Origination, Orientation, and OriginalityPart I. Chinese Philosophical Orientations 1. Chinese Philosophy: A Characterization2. A Model of Causality in Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Study3. The Nature and Function of Skepticism in Chinese Philosophy4. Conscience, Mind and the Individual in Chinese Philosophy5. Chinese Philosophy and Symbolic Reference6. Toward Constructing a Dialectics of Harmonization: Harmony and Conflict in Chinese PhilosophyPart II. Confucian Dimensions 7. Rectifying Names (Cheng-Ming) in Classical Confucianism8. On yi as a Universal Principle of Specific Application in Confucian Morality9. Some Aspects of the Confucian Notion of Mind10. Theory and Practice in Confucianism11. Dialectic of Confucian Morality and Metaphysics of Man: A Philosophical Analysis12. Confucian Methodology and Understanding the Human Person13. Legalism versus Confucianism: A Philosophical Appraisal14. Confucius: Heidegger and the Philosophy of the I Ching: On Mutual Interpretations of OntologiesPart II. Neo-Confucian Dimensions 15. Method, Knowledge and Truth in Chu Hsi16. Unity and Creativity in Wang Yang-ming's Philosophy of Mind17. Practical Learning in Yen Yuan, Chu Hsi, and Wang Yang-ming18. Religious Reality and Religious Understanding in Confucianism and Neo-Confuciansim19. The Consistency and Meaning of the Four-Sentence Teaching in Ming Ju Hsueh An20. Li-Ch'i and Li-Yu Relationaships in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Confucian Philosophy21. Categories of Creativity in Whitehead and Neo-Confucianism Glossary Index