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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Dedication
Title page
Copyright page
Preface
1: Introduction
1 This book
2 Background
Notes
2: Pattern and Vital Stuff
1 Introduction and background
2 Vital stuff
3 Pattern
4 Debates over Pattern's relation to vital stuff
5 The many faces of Pattern
Notes
3: Nature
1 Introduction and background
2 Nature as ground of morality
3 Beyond good and bad?
4 Individuality and badness
5 Debating Dai Zhen's alternative picture
Notes
4: Heartmind
1 Background: the accordance problem for Neo-Confucians and their predecessors
2 Identifying heartmind with Pattern
3 Zhu Xi on nature, emotions, and the heartmind
4 Late Ming and Qing developments: to the extremes
Notes
5: Emotions
1 Background
2 Emotional dispositions and objectivity in early Neo-Confucianism
3 Desire
4 The four beginnings as morally pure?
5 Wang Yangming on emotion and good knowing
6 A “soliloquy of emotion”?
Notes
6: Knowing
1 Introduction
2 Sensory knowing versus virtuous nature's knowing in the Northern Song
3 Sensory knowing versus virtuous nature's knowing: later developments
4 Zhu Xi's three types of knowing
5 Deliberation, holistic insight, and the unity of knowing and acting
Notes
7: Self-Cultivation
1 Introduction
2 Frameworks of cultivation
3 Ritual and physical disciplines
4 Greater Learning and “getting a handle on things”
5 Mental discipline
6 Studying the Confucian canon
Notes
8: Virtues
1 Background
2 Virtues and their interrelations
3 Sincerity and wholeheartedness
4 Women and virtue
Notes
9: Governance and Institutions
1 Introduction
2 Loyalty and faction
3 Institutional versus character-centered theories of governance
4 Law and authority
5 State structure: commanderies versus fiefdoms
Notes
10: The Enduring Significance of Neo-Confucianism
1 The historical fate of Neo-Confucianism
2 Neo-Confucianism and comparative philosophy
Notes
Appendix 1: Teaching Neo-Confucianism Topically
Note
Appendix 2: Table of Neo-Confucians (by Date and Philosophical Emphasis)
Appendix 3: Abbreviations of Primary Sources
Bibliography
Index
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