Ebook: Chinese philosophy A-Z

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.;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).;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.;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).;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).;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.