Transition to Neo-Confucianism: Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality

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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
1 - Historical and Philosophical Contexts
	The Historical Context
	The Philosophical Context
	Shao Yung’s Writings
	Shao Yung’s Thought
2 - The Background
	The Shao Family
	The Education of the Future Philosopher
	Associations in Loyang
3 - Beginning a Theory
	A Theory of Explanation
	Conceptual Tools
4 - The Theoretical Structure of Reality
	The Images
	The Numbers
	The Symbolic Realm and the Phenomenal World
	Numbers for Comparisons
5 - Concepts of Change: A Focus on Cosmology
	Establishing the Concepts
	The Forms and Activities of Heaven and Earth
	The Changes and Transformations of Heaven and Earth
	The Movements and Responses of the Myriad Things
6 - Concepts of Change: Human Beings and the Universe
	Human Consciousness
	The Ends and Beginnings of Heaven and Earth
	The Duties and Accomplishments of the Sages and Worthies
7 - To Recognize a Sage
	Knowledge and Non-knowledge
	Characteristics of the Sage
	The Knowledge of the Sage
8 - To Become a Sage
	Consciousness and Reflective Perception
	The Self and Reflective Perception
	Kuan-wu and Fan-kuan in the Philosophical Context
9 - Within the Intellectual Traditions
	Contemporary Sung Opinion
	Later Sung Opinion
	Post-Sung Opinion
	Twentieth-century Opinion
10 - The Threads Running Through
Appendixes
	Appendix A - The Charts and Diagrams
	Appendix B - Selected Charts
	Appendix C - List of Chinese Characters
Reference Matter
Bibliography
Index