Having a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years Into His Immortality

Contents
Introduction Having a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality
	Notes
1 Reading the Zhuangzi Anthology
	Introduction
	A. C. Graham’s Zhuangzi and the Authorship Problem
	Pre-Qin Authorship and the Zhuangzi
	Reading the Zhuangzi Anthology: Goals, Assumptions, Methods
	Notes
2 Reflections on Textual Analysis in the Post-Graham Era
	Assumption 1: The texts we have available to study are the whole body of ancient literature.
	Assumption 2: Sound reasoning and speculation are more reliable than imperfect historical literature and records.
	Assumption 3: A historical text or record must be either reliable or discarded.
	Assumption 4: Samples can be used as evidence for general judgments.
	Notes
3 Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi
	Contemplative Phenomenology
	Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi
	Cognitive Attunement in the Qiwulun
	Notes
4 Vital Matters, A. C. Graham, and the Zhuangzi
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 Remarks on Intertranslatability and Relativism
	Notes
6 Getting to the Bottom of “Things” (wù ?): Expanding on A. C. Graham’s Understanding
	1. Introduction
	2. Tracking the Semantics of wù
	3. The Evidence of the Zuo Zhuàn
		3.1 Sets
		3.2 Sets of correspondent tokens
		3.3 Dyads
		3.4 Assemblages of objects and random sets
	4. Pointing to Things as They Are Now—And Other Things Being Equal
	Notes
7 Míng (?) as “Names” Rather than “Words”: Disabled Bodies Speaking without Acting in Early Chinese Texts
	Introduction
	Background: Detached versus Immersed Views of Language
	Prefatory Remarks
	Blind Naming Passages
	Criteria for the Correctness of a Name
	Words and Names
	Why Blind People, After All?
		A cross-cultural perspective
		Lameness and the motivation for using visual disabilities
		Taste impairment and the motivation for using visual disabilities
	The Legacy of Blind Naming in the Mò Biàn
	Notes
8 Unfounded and Unfollowed: Mencius’s Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mo Di
	Unfounded: Mencius’s Portrayal of the Egoist Yang Zhu
		Negative evidence
		Positive evidence
	Equally Unfounded: Mencius’s Portrayal of the Extreme Altruist Mozi
	Unfollowed: Post-Mencian Variations on “Hair” and the “World”
		Praise for not sacrificing one hair to obtain the world
		Criticism for not sacrificing one hair to obtain the world
		Cynical appraisal of the ideal of abdication
		By benefiting the world, one deserves to benefit from it
	One Superficial Follower: “Yang Zhu” in the Liezi
	Conclusion
	Notes
9 Reconstructing A. C. Graham’s Reading of Mencius on xing ?: A Coda to “The Background of the Mencian Theory of Human Nature” (1967)
	Sharing a Hobby Horse
	Setting the Problem
	Angus Graham and the Narrative Interpretation of xing
	Graham’s Initial Developmental Understanding of the Mencian xing (?)
	Graham’s Evolving Understanding of xing
	Familiar Misreadings of Mencius on xing
	Using Mencius to Restate Graham’s Insights into the Notion of xing
	The Mencius on the in medias res of Native Conditions
	The Mencius on the Role of Assiduous Personal Cultivation
	Mencius and the Holography of xin as xing
	Mencius and the Reserving of xing for That Which Is Distinctively Human
	The Mencius and a Virtuosity That Is Deliberate and Resolute
	In Summary
	Notes
10 Reason and Spontaneity Reconsidered
	Prefatory Note
	Graham’s Awareness and Non-Kantian Autonomy
	The Biology of Choice and Agency
		Prereflective awareness: phenomenal body image and prenoetic body schema
		Somatic markers
			The self in the brain: self-referential processing
		Animal awareness
			Animal awareness in the Zhuangzi
			Hierocles on animal self-perception
			Empirical evidence for animal awareness and agency
	Notes
11 Spontaneity and Marriage
	Introduction: The Setting
	The Background: Graham’s Anti-Rationalism
	The Quarrel: Spontaneity versus Marriage
	Mediation: Levels of Spontaneity
	Reconciliation: Spontaneously Guided Spontaneity
	The Problem Resurfaces: Lingering Doubts
	The Story of Zhuangzi’s Wife
	Conclusion
	Notes
12 Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in Later Mohism and the Zhuangzi
	Introduction
	Huì Shi and Rationalism
	Knowledge and Change in Later Mohism
	Transience and Permanence in Later Mohism
	A Fourfold Division of Knowledge?
	The a priori
	A priori Grounds for Ethics?
	Are the Mohists Rationalists?
	Anti-Rationalism or Expertise?
	Notes
About the Contributors
Index