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Essentials of Contemporary Neo-Confucian Philosophy
About this book
This volume is the follow-up to Understanding Confucian Philosophy: Classical and Sung-Ming, which presented the first two Epochs of Confucian philosophy. The third Epoch, presented in this book, is that of Contemporary Neo-Confucian philosophy. It notes a paradigm shift from the late Ming to the early Ch'ing, which shows us how the line of Sung-Ming Neo-Confucian philosophy was broken. Then, background information is given to answer the question of how the phoenix was reborn from the ashes; at the height of the iconoclast May Fourth Movement in 1919, Liang Sou-ming, the forerunner of the movement, developed his ideas about East-West cultures and their philosophies. During the darkest moments of Chinese history, three generations of New Confucian scholars developed their ideas and achieved great scholarship. Shu-hsien Liu presents a framework of four groups to portray the movement. And, the philosophies of Fung Yu-lan, Hsuing Shih-li, Thome H. Fang, T'ang Chun-I, and Mou tsung-san are reviewed and analyzed. The international dimension of the third generation of New Confucians is also introduced. In the conclusion, Shu-hsien Liu comments on the relevance of this trend of thought today with a view toward the future.
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Table of contents
- Editor’s Note
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Paradigm Shift in the Transitional Period from the Late Ming to the Early Ch’ing
- 2. Background for the Emergence of Contemporary New Confucianism
- 3. Fung Yu-lan’s New Learning of Principle
- 4. The Spiritual World of Hsiung Shih-li
- 5. Thomé Fang’s Grand Scheme of Comparative Philosophy
- 6. The Spiritual Spheres of T’ang Chün-i
- 7. Mou Tsung-san’s Affirmation of Intellectual Intuition
- 8. The International Dimension of the Third-Generation New Confucians
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index