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This is a chronicle of Chinese thought from the third millennium sage-kings to the 1911 overthrow of the monarchical system. It focuses particularly on the most commonly known schools of Confucianism and Taoism, with insights into Mohism, "Yin-Yang", Legalism, New-Taoism and Neo-Confucianism.
First Sentence
The place which philosophy has occupied in Chinese civilization has been comparable to that of religion in other civilizations.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction
Author's Preface
1. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy
2. The Background of Chinese Philosophy
3. The Origin of the Schools
4. Confucius, the First Teacher
5. Mo Tzu, the First Opponent of Confucius
6. The First Phase of Taoism: Yang Chu
7. The Idealistic Wing of Confucianism: Mencius
8. The School of Names
9. The Second Phase of Taoism: Lao Tzu
10. The Third Phase of Taoism: Chuang Tzu
11. The Later Mohists
12. The Yin-Yang School and Early Chinese Cosmogony
13. The Realistic Wing of Confucianism: Hsun Tzu
14. Han Fei Tzu and the Legalist School
15. Confucianist Metaphysics
16. World Politics and World Philosophy
17. Theorizer of the Han Empire: Tung Chung-shu
18. The Ascendancy of Confucianism and Revival of Taoism
19. Neo-Taoism: The Rationalists
20. Neo-Taoism: The Sentimentalists
21. The Foundation of Chinese Buddhism
22. Ch'anism, the Philosophy of Silence
23. Neo-Confucianism: The Cosmologists
24. Neo-Confucianism: The Beginning of the Two Schools
25. Neo-Confucianism: The School of Platonic Ideas
26. Neo-Confucianism: The School of Universal Mind
27. The Introduction of Western Philosophy
28. Chinese Philosophy in the Modern World
Bibliography
Index
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