Philosophy A-Z: Chinese Philosophy A-Z
Philosophy A-Z: Chinese Philosophy A-Z
Editor/Author
Mou, B.
Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-74-863712-6
Category: Philosophy
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A concise alphabetic guide to the main concepts, figures, topics and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years.
Table of Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- Using This Book
- Acknowledgements
- A
- aesthetics
- Ai Si-qi (1910-66)
- Analects
- analysis / analytic methodology / analytic philosophy
- analytic movement in modern Chinese philosophy
- argumentation/argument
- argument by analogy
- B
- being versus becoming
- Buddha
- Buddhism / Buddhist
- Buddhist karma and samsara
- C
- Chan (Zen) Buddhism (Chan-Zong )
- cheng (sincerity)
- Cheng Hao (Ch'eng Hao)
- Cheng Yi (Ch'eng I)
- Chinese Buddhism
- Chinese language and its related folk way of thinking
- Chinese language and reflective way of thinking in Chinese philosophy
- Chinese philosophy
- Classical (pre-Qin) Confucianism
- Classical Daoism / Lao-Zhuang Daoism / Lao-Zhuang Philosophy
- comparative philosophy
- conduct ethics
- Confucianism (Ru-Jia ) / Confucian
- Confucius (Kong Zi)
- Consciousness-Only Buddhism (Wei-Shi-Zong)
- consequentialism
- constructive engagement (methodology/purpose)
- constructive engagement movement in modern Chinese philosophy
- Contemporary Neo-Confucianism (dang-dai-Xin-Ru-Xue)
- “Continental” philosophy study movement in modern Chinese philosophy
- correlative thinking (correlative way of thinking)
- cosmology
- D
- Da-Xue (Ta Hsüeh) (Great Learning)
- Dai Zhen (Tai Chen) (style name “Dong-yuan” : 1723-77)
- dao (Way or the way things are; ultimate reality or the ultimate)
- Dao-De-Jing (Tao Te Ching)
- Daoism / philosophical Daoism / Daoist (Dao-Jia )
- Dao-Tong
- Dao-Xue (Learning of Dao)
- de (virtue; manifestations of the dao)
- determinism
- dialectical materialism and its development in China
- Dong Zhong-shu (Tung Chung-shu) (c. 179-104 BCE)
- dualism
- E
- egoism
- enlightenment (in Buddhism)
- enlightenment movement in modern Chinese philosophy
- epistemology
- er-di [lun] (double-truth account)
- ethics
- evocative argumentation
- F
- Fa-Jia
- Fa Zang (Fa-tsang) (643-712)
- Fan Zhen (450-515)
- Fang Dong-mei (Thomé H. Fang) (1899-1977)
- fatalism
- filial piety
- freedom
- Fung Yu-lan (Feng You-lan) (1895-1990)
- G
- ge-wu-zhi-zhi (investigating things and extending knowledge)
- global philosophy
- Golden Rule
- Gong-sun Long (Kung-sun Lung) (284-259 BCE)
- Graham Angus Charles (1919-91)
- gua
- Guan-Zi (Kuan Tzu) (The Book of Master Guan)
- Guo Xiang (Kuo Hsiang) (d. 312)
- H
- Han Fei (Han Fei Zi / Han Fei Tzu) (280-233 BCE)
- harmony
- he (harmony/harmonious; peace; concord)
- He Lin (1902-92)
- heart-mind
- heaven
- historical materialism
- holism
- Hong Qian (Hung Tscha) (1909-92)
- Hu Shi (Hu Shih) (1891-1962)
- Hua-Yan Buddhism (Hua-Yan-Zong)
- Huai-Nan-Zi (Huai-nan Tzu)
- Huang Zong-xi (Huang Tsung-hsi) (style name “Tai-chong” honorific name “Li-zhou” 1610-95)
- Hui Neng (638-713)
- Hui Shi (Hui Shih) (350-260 BCE)
- Hui Shi's Ten Propositions
- human (moral) nature
- humanism
- humanity
- I
- idealism
- ideographic language
- inner sageliness and outer kingliness
- intuition
- J
- Ji Zang (Chi-tsang) (549-623)
- Jin Yue-lin (1895-1984)
- jun-zi (morally superior person)
- justice
- K
- Kang You-wei (K'ang Yu-wei) (style name “Guangsha” alternative name “Chang-su” 1858-1927)
- knowledge
- L
- Lao Zi (Lao Tzu) (his legendary family name is “Li” given name “Er” style name “Dan” before the fourth century BCE?)
- Legalism / Legalists (Fa-Jia
- li (rules of propriety; rites)
- li (principle, pattern, reason, or rationale)
- li-xue (study of principle)
- li-yi-fen-shu (one principle with many manifestations)
- Liang Qi-chao (Liang Ch'i-ch'ao) (style name “Zhuoru” 1873-1929)
- Liang Shu-ming (style name “Shou-ming” 1893-1988)
- liang-zhi (innate knowledge)
- Lie-Zi (Lieh-tzu)
- logical argumentation
- Lu Jiu-yuan (Lu Chiu-yüan) (style name “Zi-jing” honorific name “Xiang-shan” (Hsiang-shan) 1139-93)
- Lun-Yü (the Analects)
- M
- Madhyamika Buddhism
- Mahayana (the Great Vehicle) Buddhism
- Mao Ze-dong (Mao Tse-dung) (1893-1976)
- Marxist philosophy
- materialism / materialist
- Marxist approach to knowledge in modern Chinese philosophy
- Mencius (Meng Zi, Meng Tzu) (given name “Ke” style name “Zi-Yü” 371-289 BCE)
- Mencius (Meng-Zi) (The Book of Mencius)
- metaphysics (xin-er-shang-xue)
- methodology (method)
- Ming-Jia
- Mo-Jia
- Mo Zi (Mo Tzu) (given name “Di” 470-391 BCE)
- Mo-Zi (Mo Tzu)
- Mohism / Mohist (Mo-Jia
- moral cultivation
- moral discretion
- morality
- Mou Zong-san (Mou Tsung-san) (1909-95)
- mystical/mysticism
- N
- nature/natural
- naturalism
- nei-sheng-wai-wang (inner sageliness and outer kingliness)
- Neo-Confucianism (Song-Ming Confucianism)
- Neo-Daoism
- New Confucianism
- nirvana (enlightenment / emancipation)
- nominalism
- O
- one principle with its many manifestations
- ontology
- P
- perspectivism
- philosophy / philosophical inquiry (zhe-xue ) and philosophy in China
- prajna
- pluralism
- pragmatic / pragmatism / pragmatics
- principle
- Pure-Land Buddhism (Jing-Tu-Zong)
- Q
- qi (ch'i)
- qing (ch'ing) (affections, emotions) and li (principle, rationale)
- Qing Confucianism
- quan (ch’üan) (moral discretion)
- R
- rationality / rational
- realism
- reason
- rectification of names
- reference (the issue of reference)
- ren (jen) (humanity, human-heartedness)
- righteousness
- S
- sage / sage king
- School of Names (Ming-Jia )
- self-constitution, at the individual level
- Self-constitution, at the social level
- self-cultivation (xiu-shen )
- self-freedom
- semantic / semantics
- Seng Zhao (Seng-chao) (384-414)
- Shang Yang (real name “Gong-sun Yang” : died 338 BCE)
- Shao Yong (Shao Yung) (style name “Yao-fu” : 1011-77)
- Shen Dao (Shen Tao) (c. 350-275 BCE)
- shi-fei (what is this versus not what is this; being this versus being not this; right/adequate versus wrong/ inadquate)
- shu
- Si-Shu (the Four Books)
- sincerity
- skepticism
- Sun Zi (given name “Wu” fourth century BCE)
- synthesis / synthetic
- T
- tai-ji (the great ultimate)
- Tang Jun-yi (T'ang Chün-i) (1909-78)
- Three-Treatise (Middle-Way) Buddhism (San-Lun-Zong)
- tian (t'ien) (heaven; nature-sky-heaven)
- tian-ming (decrees or mandate of heaven)
- tian-ren-he-yi (unity of heaven and the human)
- Tian-Tai (T'ien T'ai) Buddhism
- transcendence / transcendental
- truth
- U
- ultimate concerns
- unity of heaven and the human
- unity of knowledge and action
- universals
- utilitarianism
- V
- virtue
- virtue ethics
- W
- Wang Bi (Wang Pi) (style name “Fu-si” : 226-249)
- Wang Chong (Wang Ch'ung) (style name “Zhong-ren” (: 27-97)
- Wang Fu-zhi (Wang Fu-chih) (style name “Er-nong” alternative name ‘Chuan-shan’ : 1619-92)
- Wang Guo-wei (Wang Kuo-wei) (style name “Jing-an” : 1877-1927)
- Wang Shou-ren (Yang-ming) (style name “Bo-an” ; honorific name “Yang-ming” : 1472-1529)
- Wei-Shi Buddhism
- “White-Horse-Not-Horse” (bai-ma-fei-ma) thesis
- world philosophy
- wu
- wu-wei (non-action)
- wu-xing (wu-hsing) (five phases; five powers)
- X
- Xi (Ji) Kang (Hsi K'ang) (223-62; is pronounced “ji” in modern Chinese)
- xiao (hsiao) (filial piety)
- xin (hsin) (heart-mind or mind-heart)
- xin-xue (study of mind-heart)
- xing
- Xiong Shi-li (Hsiung Shih-li) (alternative name “Zizhen” : 1885-1968)
- xiu-sheng
- xu (hsü) (empty/emptiness; vacuous/vacuity)
- Xuan Zang (Hsüan-tsang) (596-664)
- Xun Zi (Hsün Tzu) (given name “Kuang” ; style name “Qing” : c. 300-230 BCE)
- Xun-Zi (Hsün Tsu) (Books of Xun Zi)
- Y
- Yan Fu (Yen Fu) (style name “Ji-dao” : 1853-1921)
- Yan Yuan (Yen Yüan) (style name “Yi-zhi” : 1635-1704)
- yan-yi-zhi-bian (the debate on the relation between speech and meaning)
- Yang Zhu (Yang Chu) (fifth century BCE?)
- Yangism / Yangists
- yi
- yi (righteousness)
- Yi-Jing (I Ching)
- Yi-Zhuan
- yin-yang
- yin-yang metaphysical vision (in the Yi-Jing)
- yin-yang way of thinking (yin-yang model of interaction and transformation)
- you (to have, being)
- you versus wu (being versus non-being)
- Z
- Zen Buddhism
- Zhang Dai-nian (style name “Ji-tong” : 1909-2004)
- Zhang Dong-sun (Chang Tung-sun) (style name “Sheng-xin” : 1886-1973)
- Zhang Xue-cheng (Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng) (style name “Shi-zhai” : 1738-1801)
- Zhang Zai (Chang Tsai) (style name “Zi-hou” honorific name “Heng-qu” : 1020-77)
- zheng-ming (rectification of names)
- zhi
- zhi-xing-he-yi (chih-hsing-ho-i) (unity of knowledge and action)
- zhong (chung) (sincere commitment; loyalty)
- Zhong-Yong (Chung Yung) (Doctrine of the Mean or Centrality and Commonality)
- Zhou Dun-yi (Chou Tun-i) (style name “Mao-shu” honorific name “Lian-xi” : 1017-73)
- Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) (style names “Yuan-hui” and “Zhong-hui” : 1130-1200)
- Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu) (given name “Zhou” : 375-300 BCE)
- Zhuang-Zi (the Chuang Tzu)
- zi-ran
- Zou Yan (Tsou Yen) (305-240 BCE)
- Subject Bibliography: Selected Further Reading
- Appendix 1: Comparative Chronology of Philosophers
- Appendix 2: Note on Transcription and Guide to Pronunciation