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The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy features more than 40 chapter-length introductions to the concepts, claims, and arguments that animate the Chinese philosophical tradition-exploring historical, literary, theoretical, and pragmatic facets of one of the world's great conversations.
List of contents
Introduction
Act I 1 Sociopolitical Context: Problems and Opportunities 2 Heaven, Spirits, and Fate 3 Divination, Prediction, and Human Agency 4 Military Affairs and Justified Violence 5 Basic Moral Values and Virtues 6 The Development of Law in Early Chinese Political Philosophy 7 The Constitution of the Human Person 8 Agency 9 Names and Speech in Warring States Thought 10 Knowledge and Argumentation 11
Dao and What Is Above Forms
Act II 12
Dao and Intellectual Diversity: Three Ways of Finding Our Way Forward 13 Early Chinese Philosophy of History 14 Chinese Identity, Confucian Ethnocentrism, and the Idea of the Civilization-State 15 Early Literary Thought 16 Music in Early Chinese Philosophy 17 Gender Discourse in the Confucian Classics and Han Confucianism 18 Filial Piety (
Xiao): A Crucial but Contested Virtue 19
Yinyang Thinking: The Power of Connectivity 20 Heaven and Fate in Han Period Thought 21 Things and What Is Beyond All Things: Clarifying the Relationship Between
You and
Wu in Wei-Jin
Xuanxue 22 Agency and Morality in
Xuanxue Thought
Act III 23 Chinese Reactions to and Adaptations of Buddhist Monasticism 24 Relations Among the Three Teachings 25 Expedient Means and Conventional Truth 26 Language and Beyond Language in Chinese Buddhism 27 On Artistic Creations 28 Emptiness in Chinese Buddhism 29 Buddha-nature 30 Consciousness 31 Theory and Practice in Huayan Buddhism 32 Desire, Human Nature, and Relational Virtuosity: Chan Buddhist Insights
Act IV 33 Philosophy of Literature in Middle Period China (800-1400) 34 Middle Period Arguments on the Compatibility of the Three Teachings: The Positions of Chao Jiong, Qisong, and Li Chunfu 35 Things and What Is Beyond All Things 36 Cosmology and Physical Science 37 Constitution of the Human Person 38 Agency and Moral Subjectivity 39 Knowledge and Knowing in Neo-Confucianism 40 Zhu Xi and the Paradox of Moral Education 41 Quiet-Sitting Meditation: A Philosophical Practice in the Cheng-Zhu Learning of Pattern- Principle 42 Ideal Personality and the Ways to Achieve It in Neo-Confucianism: The Teachings of Wang Yangming and His Followers as an Example
About the author
Brook Ziporyn is Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the Divinity School, University of Chicago. His recent works include the monographs
Ironies of Oneness and Difference (2012),
Beyond Oneness and Difference (2013),
Emptiness and Omnipresence (2016), and
Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond (2024), as well as the translations
Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings (2020) and
Daodejing (2022).
Stephen C. Walker teaches at the University of Chicago and DePaul University. His articles on classical Chinese philosophy (particularly the
Zhuangzi and related texts) have appeared in
Dao, Oriens Extremus, Philosophy East and West, and other venues.
