Thinking Through Confucius

Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville Preface Wade-Giles/Pinyin Conversion Table Apologia Some Uncommon Assumptions 1 An Immanental Cosmos 2 Conceptual Polarity 3 Tradition as Interpretive Context I "At fifteen my heart-and-mind were set upon learning..." 1 The Conditions of Thinking 2 Learning (hsueh) 3 Reflecting (ssu) 4 Realizing (chih) 4.1 Living up to One's Word (hsin) 5 An Illustration: The Book of Songs II "... at thirty I took my stance..." 1 Personal Articulation: Some Alternatives 2 The Mutuality of Ritual Action (li) and Signification (yi ) 2.1 Ritual Action (li) 2.2 Signification (yi) 3 The Authoritative Person 3.1 Jen as Authoritative Person 3.2 Jen and Person Making 4 An Illustration: Po I and Shu Ch'i III "... at forty I was no longer of two minds... " 1 The Primacy of Aesthetic Order 1.1 The Aesthetics of Praxis 2 The Masses (min) 2.1 Min and Jen 2.2 Individual Absoluteness and Individual Relativity 3 Effecting Sociopolitical Order (cheng ) 3.1 Cheng and Cheng 3.2 Law and Ritual Action: Hsing , Fa and Li 3.3 Shame (ch'ih) and Guilt (tsui) 4 The Exemplary Person: Chun Tzu 4.1 The Chun Tzu as Model IV "... at fifty I realized the ming of t'ien... " 1 The Question of Confucius' Cosmology 2 T'ien and T'ien Ming 2.1 The Historical Development of T'ien 2.2 T'ien and Transcendence 2.3 T'ien Ming 3 Te 3.1 A Characterization of Te from Early Literature 3.2 Te A Philosophic Reconstruction 4 Tao 4.1 Confucius' Understanding of Tao 4.2 Tao and Transcendence 5 T'ien-jen 5.1 Field and Focus 5.2 Confucian Religiousness 6 Confucian Cosmology as Ars Contextualis V "... at sixty my ear was attuned... " 1 The Centrality of Communication 2 Sage (sheng jen ): A Philological and Literary Analysi 3 The Sage and the Ordering of Names (cheng ming) 3.1 The Aesthetic Character of Classical Chinese 3.2 Cheng Ming : The Ordering of Names 3.3 The Sage as Virtuoso 4 Shu : The Unifying Thread 4.1 Shu as "Deference" 4.2 The Language of Deference 5 The Sage as Master of Communication 5.1 Allusive Analogy 5.2 Thinking as Attunement VI "... and at seventy I could give my heart-and-mind free rein without overstepping the mark." 1 The Failings of Confucius 2 Opportunities for Engagement 3 Invitation to a Future Endnotes Bibliography of Works Cited Finding List for Passages from the Analects Index