Disputers of the Tao : philosophical argument in ancient China /

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Author / Creator:Graham, A. C. (Angus Charles)
Imprint:La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, c1989.
Description:x, 502 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/952615
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ISBN:0812690877
0812690885 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. the Breakdown of the World Order Decreed by Heaven
  • 2. a Radical Reaction: Mo-Tzu
  • 3. Retreat to Private Life: the Yangists
  • 5. the Sharpening of Rational Debate: the Sophists
  • 6. the Discovery of Subjectivity: Sung Hsing
  • Ii. from Social to Metaphysical Crisis: Heaven Parts from Man
  • 3. from Yangism to Chuang-Tzu's Taoism: Reconciliation with Heaven by Return to Spontaneity
  • Iii. Heaven and Man Go Their Own Ways
  • 1. Lao-Tzu's Taoism: the Art of Ruling by Spontaneity
  • 1. Lao-Tzu's Taoism: the Art of Ruling by Spontaneity
  • Iv. the Reunification of the Empire and of Heaven and Man
  • 1. the Cosmologists
  • Appendix 1. a Classification of Chinese Moral Philosophies in Terms of the Quasi-Syllogism
  • Appendix 2. the Relation of Chinese Thought to the Chinese Language
  • Notes
  • Romanisation Conversion Table: Wade-Giles/Pinyin
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index