The Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Principles

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	1 The Necessity of Joining Morals to Metaphysics
	2 The Consequences of Joining Morals to Metaphysics
	3 The Argument, Methodology, and Objective of the Project
	4 Significance of the Project— Metaphysical vs. Other Readings of the Chinese Moral System
	5 Plan of Study
Part 1 A Comparative Approach to the Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Principles
	Chapter 1 The First Principle in Chinese Moral Metaphysics: The Law of Nature or Innate Nature
		1 The First Principle in Chinese Moral Metaphysics: The Law of Nature or Innate Nature
		2 The Metaphysical Foundation of Chinese Morals
		3 The Morality of Innate Nature in Mencian and Aristotelian Ethics
		4 The Shared Metaphysical Foundation of Good and Evil
		5 Conclusion
	Chapter 2 The Aristotelian vs. Kantian Approach to Chinese Moral Metaphysics
		1 The Aristotelian Approach to the Metaphysics of Chinese Morals
		2 Problems with Mou Zongsan’s Kantian Approach to Confucian Metaphysics
		3 Key Divergences between Confucian and Kantian Moral Metaphysics
		4 The Kantian and Confucian Conceptions of Morality: The Deontological and the Natural
		5 Conclusion
	Chapter 3 The Metaphysics of the Moral End and Standard in Chinese and Aristotelian Teleological Virtue Ethics
		1 Aristotle’s Teleological Virtue Ethics
		2 Confucian Teleological Virtue Ethics
		3 Zhongyong as a Metaphysical Principle and Moral Standard
		4 Zhongyong versus the Aristotelian Mean
		5 Conclusion
Part 2 The Metaphysics of Daoist and Confucian Moral Virtues
	Chapter 4 Metaphysical vs. Temporal Virtue in Daoist and Confucian Morals
		1 The Dao and Its Metaphysical Virtue
		2 Zhuangzi on the Relation of Morals and Metaphysics
		3 The Dao and Virtue in the Analects
		4 Metaphysical and Temporal Virtues in the Yi Commentaries
		5 Conclusion
	Chapter 5 The Metaphysical Foundation and Moral Cosmopolitanism of ren or Benevolence
		1 Chinese and Western Moral Cosmopolitanism
		2 Ren as the First Principle in Confucian and Mencian Ethics
		3 Cosmopolitan Benevolence in Daoist Philosophy
		4 Cosmopolitan Benevolence in Confucian and Mencian Ethics
		5 The Mind of Cosmopolitan Benevolence in Neo-Confucian Philosophy
		6 Benevolence and the Evil of Desire
		7 Conclusion
	Chapter 6 Yi or Justice/Justness as a Moral, Metaphysical, and Methodological Principle
		1 Original Goodness and the Dao of renyi
		2 The “Grand and Vital Force of Justice” and Its Temporal Manifestation as the Dao of renyi
		3 Jiyi (Accumulated Justnesses) as a Methodological Approach to Justice
		4 Two Key Barriers on the Path of Yi: Desire and Self-interest
		5 Conclusion
	Chapter 7 The Metaphysical Root and Ethical Republicanism of Chinese liyue or Ritual and Musical System
		1 The liyue System and Its Moral Scheme in the Zhouli
		2 The Metaphysical Foundation of the liyue System
		3 The Moral Implications of liyue in Confucian Ethics
		4 Liyue as an Institutionalized Means of Governance
		5 The Rule of liyue and the Rule of Law
		6 Chinese vs. Roman Ethical Republicanism
		7 Conclusion
	Chapter 8 Metaphysical and Moral Knowledge in Chinese zhi or Wisdom
		1 The Wisdom Obtained by xuanjian 玄鉴 (the Metaphysical Mirror)
		2 Zhi 智 as Knowledge of Universality and the Innate Conscience
		3 The Prudential Wisdom of zhizhi 知止 (Knowing Boundaries)
		4 Conclusion
Part 3 The Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Imperatives
	Chapter 9 Confucian cheng or Truthfulness: Cheng as the Dao of Heaven and the Dao of Man
		1 Cheng as a Metaphysical Concept in Confucian and Daoist Philosophy
		2 Cheng as a Methodological Approach to zhongyong
		3 Cheng (Truthfulness) and xin (Honesty or Trustworthiness) in the Analects and Mencius
		4 Cheng and Moral Cultivation in the Great Learning and Zhongyong
		5 Cheng 诚 (Truthfulness) and jing 敬 (Respect)
		6 Conclusion
	Chapter 10 The Law of Return and Self-Reflection: The Freedom and Autonomy of the Confucian Self
		1 The Daoist Law of Return and Its Moral Implications
		2 Confucius on Self-Reflection and Self-Critique
		3 The Self in Mencius’s Moral Imperatives
		4 The Metaphysical Foundation of the Self in Neo-Confucian Philosophy
		5 The Moral and Epistemological Freedom and Autonomy of the Confucian Self
		6 The Epistemological Agency of the Reflexive and Self-Correcting Self
		7 Conclusion
Epilogue
References
Index
	Ancient Chinese Sources
	Western Sources
	Modern Authors