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Author:   Mingjun Lu
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   23
Weight:   0.679kg
ISBN:  

9789004503496

ISBN 10:   9004503498
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 January 2022
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Necessity of Joining Morals to Metaphysics 2 The Consequences of Joining Morals to Metaphysics 3 The Argument, Methodology, and Objective of the Project 4 Significance of the Project-Metaphysical vs. Other Readings of the Chinese Moral System 5 Plan of Study part 1 A Comparative Approach to the Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Principles 1 The First Principle in Chinese Moral Metaphysics The Law of Nature or Innate Nature 1 The First Principle in Chinese Moral Metaphysics: The Law of Nature or Innate Nature 2 The Metaphysical Foundation of Chinese Morals 3 The Morality of Innate Nature in Mencian and Aristotelian Ethics 4 The Shared Metaphysical Foundation of Good and Evil 5 Conclusion 2 The Aristotelian vs. Kantian Approach to Chinese Moral Metaphysics 1 The Aristotelian Approach to the Metaphysics of Chinese Morals 2 Problems with Mou Zongsan's Kantian Approach to Confucian Metaphysics 3 Key Divergences between Confucian and Kantian Moral Metaphysics 4 The Kantian and Confucian Conceptions of Morality: The Deontological and the Natural 5 Conclusion 3 The Metaphysics of the Moral End and Standard in Chinese and Aristotelian Teleological Virtue Ethics 1 Aristotle's Teleological Virtue Ethics 2 Confucian Teleological Virtue Ethics 3 Zhongyong as a Metaphysical Principle and Moral Standard 4 Zhongyong versus the Aristotelian Mean 5 Conclusion part 2 The Metaphysics of Daoist and Confucian Moral Virtues 4 Metaphysical vs. Temporal Virtue in Daoist and Confucian Morals 1 The Dao and Its Metaphysical Virtue 2 Zhuangzi on the Relation of Morals and Metaphysics 3 The Dao and Virtue in the Analects 4 Metaphysical and Temporal Virtues in the Yi Commentaries 5 Conclusion 5 The Metaphysical Foundation and Moral Cosmopolitanism of ren or Benevolence 1 Chinese and Western Moral Cosmopolitanism 2 Ren as the First Principle in Confucian and Mencian Ethics 3 Cosmopolitan Benevolence in Daoist Philosophy 4 Cosmopolitan Benevolence in Confucian and Mencian Ethics 5 The Mind of Cosmopolitan Benevolence in Neo-Confucian Philosophy 6 Benevolence and the Evil of Desire 7 Conclusion 6 Yi or Justice/Justness as a Moral, Metaphysical, and Methodological Principle 1 Original Goodness and the Dao of renyi 2 The Grand and Vital Force of Justice and Its Temporal Manifestation as the Dao of renyi 3 Jiyi (Accumulated Justnesses) as a Methodological Approach to Justice 4 Two Key Barriers on the Path of Yi : Desire and Self-interest 5 Conclusion 7 The Metaphysical Root and Ethical Republicanism of Chinese liyue or Ritual and Musical System 1 The liyue System and Its Moral Scheme in the Zhouli 2 The Metaphysical Foundation of the liyue System 3 The Moral Implications of liyue in Confucian Ethics 4 Liyue as an Institutionalized Means of Governance 5 The Rule of liyue and the Rule of Law 6 Chinese vs. Roman Ethical Republicanism 7 Conclusion 8 Metaphysical and Moral Knowledge in Chinese zhi or Wisdom 1 The Wisdom Obtained by xuanjian (the Metaphysical Mirror) 2 Zhi as Knowledge of Universality and the Innate Conscience 3 The Prudential Wisdom of zhizhi (Knowing Boundaries) 4 Conclusion part 3 The Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Imperatives 9 Confucian cheng or Truthfulness Cheng as the Dao of Heaven and the Dao of Man 1 Cheng as a Metaphysical Concept in Confucian and Daoist Philosophy 2 Cheng as a Methodological Approach to zhongyong 3 Cheng (Truthfulness) and xin (Honesty or Trustworthiness) in the Analects and Mencius 4 Cheng and Moral Cultivation in the Great Learning and Zhongyong 5 Cheng (Truthfulness) and jing (Respect) 6 Conclusion 10 The Law of Return and Self-Reflection The Freedom and Autonomy of the Confucian Self 1 The Daoist Law of Return and Its Moral Implications 2 Confucius on Self-Reflection and Self-Critique 3 The Self in Mencius's Moral Imperatives 4 The Metaphysical Foundation of the Self in Neo-Confucian Philosophy 5 The Moral and Epistemological Freedom and Autonomy of the Confucian Self 6 The Epistemological Agency of the Reflexive and Self-Correcting Self 7 Conclusion Epilogue References Index

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Mingjun Lu holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Toronto. Lu is the author of Chinese-Western Comparative Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Topical Approach (Lexington Books, 2020) and The Chinese Impact upon Renaissance English Literature: A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton (Ashgate, 2015; Routledge, 2019).

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