Neo-Confucianism

JeeLoo Liu is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism (Wiley-Blackwell 2006), co-editor of Consciousness and the Self (2012), and co-editor of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (2014). She is currently the Executive Director of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy.

"This book is clearly one of the greatest accomplishments among English Neo-Confucian philosophical studies in recent decades. JeeLoo Liu uses clear language and rigorous philosophical reasoning to analyze eight pivotal Neo-Confucian figures regarding three major areas: metaphysics, moral theory and moral practice. The book can be aptly used as both an introduction to Neo-Confucianism for beginners and a top reference for researchers, which is itself a rare achievement."Reviewed by Bin Song, Washington CollegeNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 2019

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Part I Neo]Confucian Metaphysics: From Cosmology to Ontology 291 From Nothingness to Infinity: The Origin of Zhou Dunyi's Cosmology 312 The Basic Constituent of Things: Zhang Zai's Monist Theory of Qi 613 Cheng–Zhu School's Normative Realism: The Principle of the Universe 854 Wang Fuzhi's Theory of Principle Inherent in Qi 103Part II Human Nature, Human Mind, and the Foundation of Human Morality 1235 Zhu Xi's Internal Moral Realism: Human Nature Is Principle 1256 Lu Xiangshan and Wang Yangming's Doctrine of Mind Is Principle 1397 Wang Fuzhi's Theory of Daily Renewal of Human Nature and His Moral Psychology 157Part III The Cultivation of Virtue, Moral Personality, and the Construction of a Moral World 1818 Zhang Zai on Cultivating Moral Personality 1839 The Cheng Brothers' Globaist Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 20510 Zhu Xi's Methodology for Cultivating Sagehood: Moral Cognitivism and Ethical Rationalism 22711 Wang Yangming';s Intuitionist Model of Innate Moral Sense and Moral Reflexivism 24512 Constructing a Moral World: Wang Fuzhi's Social Sentimentalism 265References 285Index 301