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“Are You Really Right? Am I Really Wrong?”: Responding to Debates in Zhuāngzǐ 2
This essay examines the questions raised about debate in Zhuāngzǐ 莊子 2, the practical advice this chapter offers us for dealing with debates when...
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Guo **ang’s Theory of Sagely Knowledge as Seen in his “Essentials of the Analects”
In the Zhuangzi, inherent and spontaneous wisdom, the “real” wisdom associated with unity with the Dao, is promoted in opposition to wisdom...
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History of the Development of Chinese Chan Thought
The book aims to describe the history of Chan (Japanese Zen) School thought from the standpoint of social history. Chan, a school of East Asian...
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The State of the Field Report XIII: Contemporary Chinese Studies of Zhengyan Ruo Fan (Straightforward Words Seem Paradoxical) in Laozi 78
The proposition zhengyan ruo fan **言若反 (straightforward words seem paradoxical) embodies Laozi’s 老子 linguistic self-consciousness about the expression...
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Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism: Seeking Common Ground in Debate (The Wei, **, and Northern and Southern Dynasties)
In this period, the relationship among the three teachings was mainly characterized by the separation of Confucian classical studies, though it still...
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Convergence and Integration of Different Academic Schools
This chapter will focus on the content of the main academic schools and discuss their development and changes in the Han Dynasty. The main academic...
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The Vicissitudes of Chan Learning in the Early Yuan
The Qing-dynasty monk Shoudeng (Tianqi) indicated that the hymns on old cases (songgu) of the Chan School had succeeded to, and had been influenced...
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Sun Bu’er of China 孫不二 1119–1183
Commemorated as one of Seven Perfected Ones (or Seven Perfected Daoist Masters), Sun Bu’Er’s teachings and writings explore the methodology of “inner...
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Uncarved and Unconcerned: Zhuangzian Contentment in an Age of Happiness
Through the formation of positive psychology, the study of happiness has moved into the scientific domain. Positive psychology’s assertion is that...
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The Problem of Forgetting
This chapter demonstrates why the commonsensical idea of forgetting as simply a vice is problematic. It presents some philosophical arguments for the...
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The Uneasy Relation between Chinese and Western Philosophy
The article considers the relation between Chinese philosophy as an academic discipline and Western philosophy. In the academy there are three ways...
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Introduction
This is an introduction to the Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius. It provides a brief account of the life of Mencius, discusses the issue of...
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Dressing as a Sage: Clothing and Self-cultivation in Early Confucian Thought
This article examines the reasons early Confucians offer to support the belief that clothing is formative of its wearer’s character, as well as the...
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Introduction
The introduction sets out how the chapters in the volume draw on Eastern and Western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present...
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Aesthetic Characteristics
The fundamental difference between aesthetic activities and other human activities lies in the subject's emotional-centric thinking. This way of...
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A Zhuangzian Critique of John Hick’s Theodicy
Hick’s soul-making theodicy defends the omnipotence, omniscience, and all-goodness of God in the face of evil. It holds that the end of the creation...