A source book in Chinese philosophy - Chan, Wing-tsit 1901- (Princeton, N. J. Princeton University Press, 1963)
1. The growth of humanism -- Introduction -- 1. Ancestor and the Lord on High -- 2. The mandate of heaven, ancestors and virtue -- 3. The great norm -- 4. Spirits, the soul, and immorality -- 2. The humanism of Confucius -- Introduction -- Selection from the analects -- 3. Idealistic Confucianism: Mencius -- Introduction -- The book of Mencius: book 6, part 1 -- Additional selections -- 4. Moral and social programs: the great learning -- Introduction -- the great learning -- 5. Spiritual dimensions : the doctrine of the mean -- Introduction -- The doctrine of the mean -- 6. Naturalistics Confucianism: Hsun Tzu -- Introduction -- 1. On nature 2. On the rectification of names -- 3. The nature of man is evil -- 7. The natural way of Lao Tzu -- Introduction -- The Lao Tzu (Tao-t ching) -- 8. The mystical way of Chuang Tzu -- Introduction -- A. The equality of things -- B. The great teacher -- C. Additional selections -- 1. The nature and reality of Tao -- 2. Tao every-where -- 3. Constant flux -- 4. Evolution -- 5. Tao as transformation and one -- 6. Nature vs. man -- 7. Calmness of mind -- 8. Sagelines and kingliness -- 9. The equality of life and death -- 10. Subjectivity -- 11. The inner spirit -- 9. Mo Tzu's doctrines of universal love, heaven and social welfare -- Introduction -- A. Universal Love, pt.2 -- B. The will of heaven, pt.1 -- C. Attack on fatalism, pt. 1 -- D. Additional selections -- 1. Utilitarianism -- 2. The condemnation of war -- 3. The condem,ation of wasteful musical activities -- 4. The condemnation of elaborate funerals -- 5. Elevating the worthy to government positions -- 6. Agreement with the superior -- 10. Debates on metaphysical concepts; the logicians -- Introduction -- A. The paradoxes of Hui Shih and the debaters -- B. The Kung-sun Lung Tzu -- 1. On the white horse -- 2. On marks (chih) and things -- 3. on the explanation of change -- 4. on hardness and whiteness -- 5. On names and actuality -- 11. The Yin Yang school -- Introduction -- 1. Tsou Yen -- 2. Yin and Yang -- 3. the five agents -- 12. Legalism -- Introduction -- 1. The synthesis of legalistic doctrine -- 2. Interpretations of Tao -- 13. The philosophy of change -- Introduction -- 1. Selections from the commentaries -- 2. Selections from the appended remarks, pt. 1 -- 3. selections from the appended remarks, pt. 2 -- 4. Selections from remarks on certain trigrams -- 14. Yin Yang Confucianism: Tung Chung-shu -- Introduction -- A. The profound examination of names and appellations -- B. The meaning of the five agents -- C. The correspondence of man and numerical categories of heaven -- D. Things of the same kind activate each other -- E. Additional selections -- 1. The origin (Yuan) -- 2. Humanity and righteousness -- 3. Humanity and wisdom -- 4. Historical cycles -- 15. Taoistic Confucianism: Yang Hsiung -- Introduction -- Selection -- 16. The naturalism of Wang Ch'ung -- Introduction -- A. On original Nature -- B. On spontaneity -- C. A treatise on death -- D. Additional selection -- 1. Accident vs. necessity -- 2. Strange phenomena -- 3. Fate -- 4. The equality of past and present -- 17. The Taoism of Huai-nan Tzu -- Introduction -- 1. The nature of Tao -- 2. The beginning of reality -- 3. Centrifugal cosmogony -- 18. Negative Taoism in the Lieh Tzu and the Yang Chu Chapter -- Introduction -- A. The Yang Chu Chapter -- B. The Lieh Tzi -- 1. Skepticism -- 2. Fatalism -- 19. Neo-Taoism -- Introduction -- 1. Wang Pi's simple exemplifications of the principles of the book of changes -- 2. Wang pi's commentary on the book of changes -- 3. Wang pi's commentary on the Lao Tzu -- 4. Ho Yen's treatise on Tao -- 5. Ho Yen's treatise on the nameless -- 6. Kuo Hsiang's commentary on the Chuang Tzu -- 20. The seven early Buddhist schools -- Introduction -- Selections -- 21. Seng-chao's doctrine of reality -- Introduction -- 1. The immunity of things -- 2. The emptiness of the unreal -- 22. The philosophy of emptiness: Chi-tsang of the three-treatise school -- Introduction -- 1. The two levels of truth -- 2. Causes and effects -- 3. The four subsidiary causes -- 4. Existence, nonexistence, and emptiness -- 5. Substance and function -- 23. Buddhist idealism -- Hsuan-tsang of the conciousness-only school -- Introduction -- 1. The nonexistence of the self -- 2. The non existence of dharmas -- 3. The first transformation of consciousness -- 4. The second transformation of consciousness -- 5. The third transformation of consciousness -- 6. Consciousness-only -- 7. Nine objections to the consciousness-only doctrine and their answers -- 8. The three natures of being, three natures of non-being, and thusness -- 24. The T'ien-t'ai philosophy of perfect harmony -- Introduction -- 1. The various aspects of the mind -- 2. Three ages as a instant ; substance and function -- 3. The function of concentration and insight -- 25. The one-and all philosophy -- Fa-tsang of the Hua-yen school -- Introduction -- A. Treatise on the golden lion -- B. Hundred gates to the sea of ideas of the flowery splendor scripture -- 1. All that come into existence through causation end together in quiescence -- 2. Harmonious combination and spontaneity -- 26. The Zhev (Ch'an) school of sudden enlightenment -- Introduction -- A. The platform scripture -- B. The recorded conversations of Shen-hui -- C. The recorded conversations of Zen Master I-hsuan -- 27. The revival of confucianism : Han Yu and Li Ao -- Introduction -- 1. An inquiry on human nature -- 2. An inquiry on the way -- 3. The recovery of the nature -- 28. The Neo-Confucian Metaphysics and ethics in Chou Tun-i -- Introduction -- 1. An explanation of the diagram of the great ultimate -- 2. Penetrating the book of changes -- 29. The numerical and objective tendencies in Shao Yung -- Introduction -- 1. Supreme principles governing the world -- 30. Chang Tsai's philosophy of material force -- Introduction -- A. The western Inscription -- B. Correcting youthful ignorance -- 1. Great harmony -- 2. Enlightenment resulting from sincerity -- c. Additional selections -- 31. The idealistic tendency in Ch'eng Hao -- Introduction -- 1. On understanding the nature of Jen (humanity) -- 2. Reply to master Heng-ch'us letter on calming human nature -- 3. Selected sayings -- 32. The rationalistic tendency in Ch'eng I -- Introduction -- 1. A treatise on what Yen Tzu loved to learn -- 2. Letter in reply to Yang Shih's letter on the western inscription -- 3. Selected sayings -- 33. The unity of mind and principle in Lu Hsiang-shan -- Introduction -- Selections -- 34. The great synthesis in Chu Hsi -- Introduction -- A. Treatise on Jen -- 2. A treatise on Ch'eng Ming-tao's discourse on the nature -- 3. First letter to the gentlemen of hunan on equilibrium and harmony -- 4. A treatise on the examination of the mind -- B. The complete works -- 1. Moral cultivation -- 2. The relation between the nature of man and things and their destiny -- 3. The nature of man and things -- 4. The nature of man and the nature of things compared -- 5. Physical nature -- 6. Destiny -- 7. The mind -- 8. The mind, the nature, and the feelings -- 9. Jen -- 10. Principle (Li) and material force (Ch'i) -- 11. The great ultimate -- 12. Heaven and earth -- 13. Spiritual beings and spiritual forces -- 14. Buddhism -- 35. Dynamic idealism in Wang Yang-ming -- Introduction -- A. Inquiry on the great learning -- B. Instructions for practical living -- 36. The materialism of Wang Fu-chih -- Introduction -- 1. The world of concrete things -- 2. Substance and function -- 3. Being and non-being -- 4. Principle and material force -- 5. Unceasing growth and man's nature and destiny -- 6. The principle of nature and human desires -- 7. History and government -- 37. Practical Confucianism in Yen Yuan -- Introduction -- 1. In defense of physical nature -- 2. The identity of principle and material force -- 3. Learning through experience -- 38. Tai Chen's philosophy of principle as order -- Introduction -- 1. On principle (Li) -- 2. On nature -- 3. On capacity -- 4. On humanity. righteousness, propriety, and wisdom -- 5. On the variety of circumtances -- 39. K'ang Yu-wei's philosophy of great unity -- Introduction -- 1. The three ages -- 2. Confuciu's institutional reforms -- 3. The mind that cannot bear to see the suffering of others -- 4. The ages of great unity -- 5. Humanity -- 40. The philosophy of humanity (Jen) in T'an Ssu-t'ung -- Introduction -- 1. Ether and humanity -- 2. The principle of nature and human desires -- 3. Neither production nor extinction -- 4. Daily renovation -- 41. Chang Tung-sun's theory of knowledge -- Introduction -- Selections -- 42. The new rationalistic Confucianism; Fung Yu-lan -- Introduction -- 1. The world and principle -- 2. Principle and material force -- 3. Tao, substance and function, and universal operation -- 4. Principle and the nature -- 5. Serving heaven and Jen (humanity) -- 43. The new idealistic Confucianism: hsiung Shih-li -- Introduction -- 1. Closing and opening -- 2. The unity of principle and material force -- 3. The mind and humanity (Jen) -- 4. The unity of substance and function -- 44. Chinese philosophy in communist China -- Introduction -- 1. The nature of the history of Chinese philosophy -- 2. The Chinese philosophical heritage -- 3. Guidance for future developments.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 793-811)
Keywords: Philosophy, Chinese