Returning to Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns within the Supreme Polarity

by David Jones (Editor), Jinli He (Editor)

Overview

Zhu Xi (1130–1200), the chief architect of neo-Confucian thought, affected a momentous transformation in Chinese philosophy. His ideas came to dominate Chinese intellectual life, including the educational and civil service systems, for centuries. Despite his influence, Zhu Xi is known as the "great synthesizer" and rarely appreciated as a thinker in his own right. This volume presents Zhu Xi as a major world philosopher, one who brings metaphysics and cosmology into attunement with ethical and social practice. Contributors from the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds explore Zhu Xi's unique thought and offer it to the Western philosophical imagination. Zhu Xi's vision is critical, intellectually rigorous, and religious, telling us how to live in the transforming world of li—the emergent, immanent, and coherent patternings of natural and human milieu.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438458373
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	12/01/2015
Series:	SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Jones is Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University and Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University. His many books include Asian Texts — Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions (coedited with E. R. Klein), also published by SUNY Press. Jinli He is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Trinity University.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction: The Day after Tomorrow-Zhu Xi's Posthumous Birth David Jones ix

Introduction Roger T. Amen 1

Part I Interpreting with Zhu Xi

Chapter 1 Zhu Xi's Metaphysics Zhang Liwen Andrew Lambert 15

Chapter 2 On Translating Taiji Joseph A. Adler 51

Chapter 3 Zhu Xi's Confucian Thoughts on the Collected Commentaries of the Zhongyong Chen Lai Chen Kuan Hung Eric Hanson 83

Chapter 4 Zhu Xi on Scientific and Occult Subjects: Defining and Extending the Boundaries of Confucian Learning Yung Sik Kim 121

Part II Thinking through Zhu Xi

Chapter 5 Opposition and Complementarity in Zhu Xi's Thought Kirill O. Thompson 149

Chapter 6 On the Formation of Zhu Xi's Spiritual World Liu Shu-Hsien 177

Chapter 7 Li as Emergent Patterns of Qi: A Nonreductive Interpretation Eiho Baba 197

Part III Applying Zhu Xi

Chapter 8 Boston Daoxue: A Modern Transposition of Zhu Xi's Philosophical Vision John Berthrong 229

Chapter 9 Zhu Xi's Virtue Ethics and the Grotian Challenge Stephen C. Angle 253

Chapter 10 How to Unite Is and Ought: An Explanation Regarding the Work of Master Zhu Meng Peiyuan Eric Colwell Jinli He 273

Chapter 11 On Anger: An Essay on Confucian Moral Psychology Kwong-loi Shun 299

Chapter 12 Spiritual and Bodily Exercise: The Religious Significance of Zhu Xi's Reading Methods Peng Guoxiang Daniel Cayle Yahui Anita Huang 325

Contributors 343

Index 351