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Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Li 理 and Coherence: Recap of Ironies of Oneness and Difference and Terminological Clarifications
Chapter One: Li 理 as a Fundamental Category in Chinese Thought
Needham and Organic Pattern
Hansen and the Mass Noun Hypothesis
Graham and the Absent Copula and Correlative Thinking
Peterson and Coherence
Hall and Ames and the Focus/Field
Chapter Two: The Advent of Li, Ironic and Non-Ironic
Li as “Greatest Coherence” in the Xunzi
“Heavenly Principle” (天理 tianli) Ironic and Non-Ironic in the “Inner Chapters” of the Zhuangzi and “The Record of Music”
Li in the “Wings” to the Zhouyi
Li and Centrality in Dong Zhongshu (179–104 BCE)
Chapter Three: The Development of Li in Ironic Texts
Li and Non-Ironic Coherence in the Later Parts of the Zhuangzi: Integrating the Non-Ironic
First Type: Li and Dao Both Non-Ironic
Second Type: Dao Ironic, Li Non-Ironic
Third Type: Dao and Li Both Ironic
Integrating Types Two and Three
Chapter Four: The Advent of Li as a Technical Philosophical Term
Toward the Ironic: Li in the Pre-Ironic Daoism of the Guanzi
Li Defined: The Later Two-and-a-half Chapters of the Guanzi
The Hanfeizi Commentary on the Laozi: Li as Division and the Yielding Dao
Cosmological Dao and Its Li in the Huainanzi
Chapter Five: Li as the Convergence of Coherence and Incoherence in Wang Bi and Guo Xiang
Subjective Perspectivism in Wang Bi: The Advent of Ti and Yong 體用 as Ironic Structure
Applications of the Multiplicity of Li in Wang’s Laozi Commentary
Convergence of Coherence and Incoherence in Guo Xiang: Li as “Just the Way It Is,” as Limit, and as Vanishing Convergence
Unintelligible Coherence: Vanishing and Merging into Things
Ironic Li as Non-Ironic Li in Guo Xiang
Chapter Six: Beyond One and Many: Li in Tiantai and Huayan Buddhism
How Emptiness Became Li
Tiantai on Truth, Threefold
Li in Early Tiantai: Center as Convertibility of Determinate and Indeterminate
Appearance and Reality in Huayan and Tiantai
Existence and Nonexistence in Tiantai and Huayan
Wave and Water in Huayan: “Beyond” Li
Wave, Water, and Mud in Tiantai: Inherent Entailment as Omniavailability
Summary of Differences between Tiantai and Huayan, and the Irony of Coherence in the Tiantai and Huayan Classifications of Teachings
Chapter Seven: Mind, Omnipresence, and Coherence in Tiantai and Huayan
The Pure Mind and the Deluded Mind in Huayan Thought
Mind and the Nature in Tiantai Thought
The Three Thousand Lis and the Three Thousand Events
Conclusion: The Vertex of the Vortex
Epilogue: Toward Li in Neo-Confucianism
Notes
Introduction
Chapter One. Li 理 as a Fundamental Category in Chinese Thought
Chapter Two. The Advent of Li, Ironic and Non-Ironic
Chapter Three. The Development of Li in Ironic Texts
Chapter Four. The Advent of Li as a Technical Philosophical Term
Chapter Five. Li as the Convergence of Coherence and Incoherence in Wang Bi and Guo Xiang
Chapter Six. Beyond One and Many. Li in Tiantai and Huayan Buddhism
Chapter Seven. Mind, Omnipresence, and Coherence in Tiantai and Huayan
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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