Dao Companion to Xuanxue 玄學 (Neo-Daoism)

Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Bibliography
Part I: Background of Xuanxue
	Chapter 2: Xuanxue’s Contributions to Chinese Philosophy
		1 Introduction
		2 Setting the Stage for Xuanxue
		3 Philosophical Predecessors to Xuanxue: Name and Reality and Evaluating Personnel
		4 Confucius as a Deified Sage
		5 Xuanxue Philosophy
		6 The Philosophers’ Contributions
		7 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: The Metaphysical Style and Structural Coherence of Names in Xuanxue
		1 Introduction
		2 Epistemological Foundations
		3 Language and Meaning
		4 Wu and the Ontology of Absence
		5 Li as Structural Coherence
		6 The All-Embracing Oneness
		7 From Mingjiao to Mingli
		8 Theoretical Innovations
		9 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part II: Foreshadowing Xuanxue in the Eastern Han
	Chapter 4: Oneness in the Taipingjing
		1 Introduction
		2 The Text of the Taipingjing
		3 Primordial Oneness
		4 The Retaining of Oneness (shou yi 守一)
		5 Modes of Unification
		6 The Unification of Knowledge
		7 The Position of the “One Man”
		8 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Yin and Yang in the Taipingjing
		1 Introduction
		2 Two Modes of Yin and Yang
		3 The Role of Yin and Yang in Prognostication
		4 The Implications of Human Conduct on the Workings of Yin and Yang
		5 The Yin of Yin and Yang
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Dao and Ziran in Heshanggong’s Commentary on the Daodejing
		1 Introduction
		2 The Origin and Reception of Heshanggong’s Commentary
		3 Dao’s Nature is Ziran
		4 Attaining Dao’s Ziran
		5 Dao’s Ziran in Society
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: The Walking Dead: Morality, Health, and Longevity in the Xuanxue Method of the Xiang’er Commentary on the Laozi
		1 Introduction
		2 The Xiang’er Commentary in Celestial Masters Tradition
		3 Morality, Healing, and Longevity in the Xiang’er Commentary
		4 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Wang Chong’s View of Ziran and its Influence on Wang Bi and Guo Xiang
		1 Introduction
		2 Wang Chong’s Life and Work
		3 Ziran in Wang Bi and Guo Xiang
		4 A Brief Look at Ziran in the Daodejing and Zhuangzi
		5 Wang Chong’s Conception of Ziran
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part III: Xuanxue in the Wei Dynasty
	Chapter 9: He Yan’s “Essay on Dao” and “Essay on the Nameless”
		1 “On Dao” (Dao lun 道論)
			1.1 Dao and Wu
			1.2 Dao and Completeness
		2 “On the Nameless” (Wuming lun 無名論)
		3 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: He Yan’s Collected Explanations on the Analects
		1 Introduction
		2 He Yan: The Principal Editor of the Collected Explanations on the Analects
		3 The Collected Explanations: A New Norm of Exegesis
		4 Hermeneutical Significance vs. Pedagogical Purpose
		5 Philosophical Possibilities
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: Ruan Ji’s “On Comprehending the Zhuangzi”
		1 Outline of the Text
		2 The Spontaneity of Wuwei
		3 Ruan Ji on the Merits of the Zhuangzi
		4 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Ji Kang’s “On Dispelling Self-Interest”
		1 The Concepts of Public and Private in Classical Daoism
		2 Establishing the Need to be without Self-Interest
		3 Lacking Self-Interest and Pursuing the Good
		4 Dispelling Self-Interest to be Pure in Body and Upright in Spirit
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: The Aesthetics of Musical Emotion in Ji Kang’s “Music has in It Neither Grief nor Joy”
		1 Introduction
		2 Expressions and Ideas Derived from the Zhuangzi
		3 Music, Emotions, and Musical Emotion
		4 The Development of Arguments and the Eighth Dialogue
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: The Ontology of Change: Wang Bi’s Interpretation of the Yijing
		1 Introduction
		2 Turning Fortune-Telling into a Philosophy
		3 Yijing Commentaries in the Han Period
		4 A New Notion of Change
		5 Hexagrams as Fields of Actions
		6 The Ontology of Change
		7 In Search of an Optimum Balance
		8 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: Language and Nothingness in Wang Bi
		1 Introduction
		2 Wang Bi between Confucius and Laozi
		3 The Emotions, Indifference, and Responsiveness
		4 Emptying the Self and the Generative Functioning of Nothingness
		5 The Functions of Language in Wang Bi
		6 Three Ways of Speaking and the Step beyond Language
		7 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 16: Metaphysics without Ontology: Wang Bi and the Daodejing
		1 Introduction
		2 Ontological vs. Process Metaphysics
		3 Ontological vs. Process Readings of the Daodejing
		4 Comparative Translations of Chapter 1 and Wang Bi’s Commentary
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part IV: Xuanxue in the Jin Dynasty
	Chapter 17: Re-envisioning the Profound Order of Dao: Pei Wei’s “Critical Discussion on the Pride of Place of Being”
		1 Introduction
		2 The Dynamic Order of Existence
		3 “Esteeming Being” and “Valuing Nothingness”: Chongyou lun in Wei-Jin Learning
		4 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 18: Metaphysics and Agency in Guo Xiang’s Commentary on the Zhuangzi
		1 Introduction
		2 Dao as “Independent Transformation”
		3 Non-Action and Inherent Character
		4 The Ethical Ideal: Freedom from Dependence
		5 Obscurity and Non-Mindedness
		6 Guo Xiang’s Normative Conception of Agency
		7 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19: Lone-Transformation and Intergrowth: Philosophy and Self-Justification in Guo Xiang’s Commentary on the Zhuangzi
		1 Introduction
		2 Ontology of Beings
		3 Structure of Reality and the Ultimate Cause of no Cause
		4 Transformations in a Flattened Heaven
		5 Lone-Transformation in Practice
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 20: Guo Xiang’s Theory of Sagely Knowledge as Seen in his “Essentials of the Analects”
		1 Introduction
		2 From “Conduct Government” Part 2 (Weizheng di Er 爲政第二)
		3 From “Conduct Government” Part 2 (Weizheng di Er 爲政第二)
		4 “Transmit but [Not Originate]” Part 7 (Shuer di Qi 述而第七)
		5 “Tai Bo” Part 8 (Tai Bo di Ba 泰伯第八)
		6 “Those Who First Advanced” Part 11 (Xianjin di Shiyi 先進第十一)
		7 “Xian Asked” Part 14 (Xian wen di Shisi 憲問第十四)
		8 “Duke Ling of Wei” Part 15 (Wei Linggong di Shiwu 衛靈公第十五)
		9 “Yang Huo” Part 17 (Yang Huo di Shiqi 陽貨第十七)
		10 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 21: Ge Hong and the Darkness
		1 Introduction
		2 The Darkness (xuan 玄)
		3 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 22: Seeking Immortality in Ge Hong’s Baopuzi Neipian
		1 Introduction
		2 Sagehood, Immortality, and Destiny
		3 Daoism and Confucianism
		4 The Case of Liu Xiang
		5 Seeking Immortality
		6 Ethics and Self-Cultivation
		7 A Miscellany of Practices
		8 The Minor Arts
		9 Nourishing Life
		10 Meditation and Alchemy
		11 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 23: Ge Hong’s Evolving Discourse on You and Wu and its Roots in the Daodejing
		1 Introduction
		2 The Daodejing’s Discourse on You/Wu
		3 Ge Hong’s Discourse on You/Wu: The Mystery
		4 Ge Hong’s Discourse on You/Wu: Form and Spirit
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 24: The Xuanxue Lifestyle: Self-Cultivation and Qi Practices
		1 Introduction
		2 Cultivation Works
		3 Xuanxue Writings
		4 Moderation
		5 Techniques for Healing
		6 Empowerment through Qi 氣
		7 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 25: Zhi Dun on Freedom: Synthesizing Daoism and Buddhism
		1 “New Buddhist Mysteries”
		2 Self-So as Matter-as-Such
		3 Re-defining “Free Wandering”
		4 Freedom Within and Freedom Without
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
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