Ritual and Deference: Extending Chinese Philosophy in a Comparative Context

RITUAL AND DEFERENCE......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1. A Confucian Program......Page 18
METAPHYSICS......Page 19
PHILOSOPHICAL COSMOLOGY......Page 22
HUMAN NATURE......Page 24
SOCIAL THEORY......Page 27
VALUES FOR THE GOOD LIFE: CONVENTIONAL, YET NORMATIVE......Page 32
A CONFUCIAN SOLUTION: RITUAL......Page 35
HIGH CIVILIZATIONS:COMPETING VALUES AND GLOBAL RITUALS......Page 37
A HOMILY ON HUMANENESS......Page 40
INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS OF RITUAL IN XUNZI......Page 44
RITUAL AND SEMIOTICS......Page 47
RITUAL AND DESIRE......Page 50
RITUAL, INTEGRATION, AND RELIGION......Page 52
4. Daoist Relativism, Ethical Choice, and Normative Measure......Page 58
A METAPHYSICAL DAOISM......Page 60
NORMATIVE MEASURE......Page 65
DAOIST ETHICS......Page 68
DAOISM AND CONFUCIANISM COMPARED......Page 71
5. Chinese Influences in English-Speaking Philosophy......Page 76
SCHOLARLY INFLUENCES......Page 77
ROGER T. AMES AND DAVID L. HALL......Page 81
TU WEIMING AND CHENG CHUNGYING......Page 83
WU KUANGMING......Page 88
THE PROBLEM......Page 92
METHODOLOGY AS A CONCERN......Page 94
PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICES......Page 97
PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE......Page 102
7. Metaphysics for Contemporary Chinese Philosophy......Page 106
THE NEED FOR METAPHYSICS......Page 107
THEMES OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY......Page 109
METAPHYSICAL DIRECTIONS......Page 112
THE UNCONSCIOUS AS A PROBLEM FOR CONFUCIAN VIRTUE......Page 118
RITUAL AND HUMANENESS......Page 120
DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART: FREUD......Page 122
DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART: MARX......Page 126
9. The Contemporary Mutual Development of Confucianism and Christianity......Page 130
FROM REFORMATION OF THE INNER HEART TO LOVING THE WORLD......Page 131
THE LOCATION OF ETHICAL ANALYSIS AND RECTIFYING POWER......Page 133
PEACE, ACTION, AND RETREAT......Page 135
10. The Personal and the Impersonal in Conceptions of Divinity......Page 138
POPULAR VERSUS SOPHISTICATED RELIGION HYPOTHESIS......Page 139
DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS: PRE-AXIAL AGE AND AXIAL AGE......Page 140
SEMIOTIC HYPOTHESIS......Page 141
ONTOLOGICAL-ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS......Page 142
MODELS OF COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY......Page 144
OBJECTIVIST COMPARISON......Page 150
NORMATIVE COMPARISON......Page 157
BEYOND COMPARATIVE TO INTEGRATIVE PHILOSOPHY......Page 159
THE HAPPY PORTABILITY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY......Page 166
RITUAL, AGAIN......Page 170
ETHICS, AGAIN......Page 172
ORIENTATION AND THE SELF......Page 174
Notes......Page 180
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C......Page 205
D......Page 207
E......Page 208
G......Page 209
I......Page 210
L......Page 211
M......Page 212
P......Page 213
R......Page 215
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T......Page 217
W......Page 218
Z......Page 219