CONTENTS
The Text in the Context of East Asian Confucianism
Zhang Zai’s Development of the Concept of Material Force
The Influence of the Monism of Qi of Luo Qinshun
Affirmation and Dissent: The Significance of the Record of Great Doubts
The Text in the Context of Tokugawa Japan
The Spread of Confucian Ideas and Values
Tradition and the Individual: The Importance of Dissent and the Centrality of Learning
Philosophical Debates Regarding Principle and Material Force
Reappropriating Tradition: Practical Learning and the Philosophy of Qi
Interpretations of Ekken’s Philosophy of Qi
Confucian Cosmology: Organic Holism and Dynamic Vitalism
Confucian Cultivation: Harmonizing with Change and Assisting Transformation
The Significance of Qi as an Ecological Cosmology
Taigiroku: The Record of Great Doubts
On the Transmission of Confucian Thought (1–11)
On Bias, Discernment, and Selection (15–23)
On Learning from What Is Close at Hand (24–28)
The Indivisibility of the Nature of Heaven and Earth and One’s Physical Nature (29)
Acknowledging Differences with the Song Confucians (30–42)
Partiality in the Learning of the Song Confucians (43–46)
Reverence Within and Rightness Without (47–50)
Influences from Buddhism and Daoism (51–60)
A Discussion of the Metaphysical and the Physical (61)
The Way and Concrete Things (67–68)
Returning the World to Humaneness (69)
Reverence and Sincerity (70–71)
Reverence as the Master of the Mind (72–80)