An Outline History of Chinese Philosophy has been jointly written and compiled by over 20 spe- cialists and scholars from nine renowned universi- ties in China. including Wuha*l University and Sun Yat-sen University. It provides a concise intro- duction to the origin and devdopment of Chinese philosophy from antiquity to 1949, the year the Peoplc's Republic of China was founded, expounding its status and features at diffcrent historical stages. It gives a historical and logical delineation of the development of Chinese philosophy by highlighting its origin and dcwelopment during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the golden age of philosophical thought during the Warring States Period, and the strides made by the Chinese philo-sophical system from Qin-Han rimes to the Ming and Qjng dynasties, as well as new visions brought by social reforms since the mid-Ming Dynasty. This book presents readers with a detailed and accurate text. lucid discussions and simple explanations of complex ideas. It is not only a monograph with academic and textual value, but also a must-have for readers m better understand and study Chinese philosophy and culture.
作者簡(jiǎn)介
Xiao Jiefu, born in Chengdu, southwestern Chings Sichuan Province, in 1924, graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Wuhan University in 1947. He has successively served as a professor and doctoral candidate supervisor in Chinese philosophy at Wuhan University, and vice chairman of the Society for the History of Chinese Philosophy and of the China Association for the Study of Confucius. as well as a member of the academic committee of the Interna- tional Taoist Association and of the advisory group of the [nternational Confucian Association. He has long been engaged in teaching and research in the fields of Chinese philosophy and culture, conducting extensive research on the history of ancient Chinese dialectics, Confucian and Taoist thought during the pre-Qin period and philosophy during the Ming-Qing period,as well as modern and contemporary cultural trends.He has been invited many times to the United States and Europe m give lectures. His academic publica- nons mainly include ltistory of Chinese Philosophy, A Draft History of Chinese Dialectics and An Introduction to Wang Chuanshan's Philosophy.Li Jinquan. born in Dongguan, southern Chinas Guangdong Province, in 1926, graduated from theDepartment of Philosophy of Sun Yar-sen University.He has successively served as a professor and doctoral candidate supervisor in the same department, anexecutive council member of the Society of the History of Chinese Philosophy, and a council memberof the International Confilcian Association. He has devoted many years to teaching and research in thefields of Chinese philosophy and cuhure, with discus sions on philosophical schools of thought from thepre-Qin period to modern and contemporary times.His academic publications mainly include A CriticalBiography of Hairui. History of Chinese Philosophy andA Collection of Modern Neo-Confucianist Studies.
圖書(shū)目錄
Foreword Part I The Emergence and Development of Philosophy in the Age of Slavery 5 Introduction 7 Chapter One The Emergence and Development of Philosophy in the Slave-Owning Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties 16 I. The Germination of Philosophical Thought in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties 16 1. The theological monopoly of severing communication between earth and heaven -- from nature worship to the worship of god on high 16 2. Harnessing the rivers and leveling the land -- from mythology and fantasy about conquering nature to the germination of the philosophy of cognition of nature 18 II. The Political Changes Accompanying the Transition from the Yin Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty, and the Emergence of Philosophical Thought 21 1. The philosophical thought of enlightened political commen- tators in the last years of the Yin Dynasty 21 2. The philosophical thought of the ruling clique in the early stage of the Western Zhou Dynasty 22 III. The Social Upheavals in the Last Years of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Further Development of Philosophical Thought 27 1. Blaming heaven and man 27 2. Development of the concepts of the five elements and yin-yang 30 Chapter Two The Ideological Trend of Atheism in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Naive Dialectics of Shi Mo and Sun Wu 35 I. The Ideological Trend of Atheism in the Spring and Autumn Period 35 1. Ji Liang and Shi Xiao: Putting Man above the Gods 35 2. Shu Xing and Zi Chan: separating heaven and man 36 II. Yan Ying and Shi Mo: Naive Dialectics 38 1. Yan Ying's two propositions: "Harmony and identity are different" and "The no and the yes may complete each other." 38 2. Shi Mo's two propositions: "Things are produced in twos" and "All things have their counterparts." 40 III. Sun Wu's Naive Materialism and Military Dialectics 42 1. The Sunzi and naive materialism in the proposition "Know yourself as well as the enemy." 43 2. Military dialectics in Sunzi as summed up in the proposition "The direct and the indirect lead to each other in turn." 46 Chapter Three The Philosophy of Confucius 51 I. The World Outlook of "Following Fate and Benevolence" 51 1. From esteeming heaven to fatalism 51 2. The benevolent thought stressing the subjective and con- scientious spirit 54 II. The Cognitive Theory Laying Equal Stress on Learning and Thinking 57 1. Stressing superior wisdom: "The wisest are born with knowl- edge." 57 2. Cognitive method: "My studies lie low, while my penetration rises high." 58 III. The Doctrine of the Mean: "Taking Hold of the Two Extremes and Determine the Mean" 61 1. The harmony of contradictions 62 2. The developmental view of history: "Three dynasties all followed the former regulations." 63 3. The cognitive method: "Keeping to the two extremes" and "Learning the new by restudying the old." 64 IV. The Historical Role of Confucius 65 Chapter Four The Mohist School 68 I. Materialist Empiricism on the Basis of "What People Have Seen with Their Own Eyes and Heard with Their Own Ears." 69 1. The origin of cognition is "the actual experience of the eyes and ears of the multitude." 69 2. "Nominate things on the basis of facts" and "examine analogical things to know the cause." 71 3. The three tests: "For any doctrine some standard must be established." 73 II. Ideological Contradictions: "Elevating Strength," "Attacking Fatalism," "the Will of Heaven" and "Beware of Ghosts" 75 1. Criticism of predestination: "elevating strength" and "attack- ing fatalism" 76 2. The mystical ideas of "the will of heaven" and "beware of ghosts" 78 III. View of Social Contradictions: "The Universal Is Revealed in the Particular." 81 1. "Elevate the worthy to government positions" and "agree with the superior" 83 2. "Universal love" and "the condemnation of wars" 85 3. "The condemnation of wasteful musical activities" and "the condemnation of unnecessary expenses" 86 Chapter Five The Philosophy of the Taoist School 89 I. The World Outlook with the Way as the Supreme Substance 90 1. The "Way" has a double attribute 90 2. The Way produced the myriad things. "The Way models itself after Nature." 91 II. The Mysterious Epistemology of "Calm Observation" and "Profound Insight" 94 III. "Reversion Is the Action of the Way" and Dialectical Thought 98 1. "Being and nonbeing produce each other; The difficult and the easy complete each other." 98 2. "Reversion is the action of the Way." 100 3. "Blunt the sharpness," "untie the tangles," and "returning to the root means tranquility." 101 4. Historical view: restoring old customs and going backwards 102 IV. The Historical Position of the Philosophy of the Laozi 104 Part H The Unfolding of Philosophical Contradictions in the Forma- tion of the Feudal System 107 Introduction 109 Chapter Six Mencius' Deepening of the Confucian Philosophy 116 I. The Original Goodness of Human Nature -- the Philosophical Basis of Benevolent Government 117 II. Cognitive Line: to Exhaust All One's Mental Constitution, to Know One's Nature and to Know Heaven 122 III. The Heroic Conception of History and the Theory of Historic Cycles 126 Chapter Seven Zhuangzi's Development of the Taoist philosophy 129 I. The Way of Heaven: the Way Created Heaven and Earth 130 II. The Theory of Knowledge Based on Relativism 133 1. The negation of the stipulations of the objects of cognition 133 2. The negation of the objectivity of the criterion of cognition 135 3. Skeptical attitude to man's knowledge 138 III. Fatalism: Make Your Mind Content with the Inevitable 139 Chapter Eight Cognitive Line: to Exhaust All One's Mental Constitution, to One's Nature and to Know Heaven 146 I. "The Uniformity of the Same and the Different" -- Hui Shi's Philosophical Viewpoint and His Logical Thought 148 II. "The Separation of the Qualities of Hardness and Whiteness from the Object Itself" -- Gongsun Long's Philosophical Viewpoint and His Logical Thought 151 III. The Natural Philosophy and Logical Theory of the Later Mohists 157 1. The philosophy of the later Mohists 159 2. The logic of the later Mohists 168 Chapter Nine Xunzi's Summation of the Contention of the Hun- dred Schools of Thought in Pre-Qin Times 176 I. Xunzi's Materialist View of Nature: Beware of the Separation of Heaven from Man 176 1. The way of heaven is nature 177 2. "The course of nature is constant." 178 3. "Understanding the division between nature and man" 179 4. "Regulate what heaven has mandated and use it" 180 II. Xun Kuang's Materialist Theory of Knowledge: "Emptiness, Unity and Stillness" 181 1. "Natural organs arrange knowledge according to proper clas- sifications" and "The mind has the function of collecting knowledge through the senses." 181 2. The epistemological method of "dispelling blindness" by means of "emptiness, unity and stillness" 184 3. Knowing and doing: "Learning reaches its climax when it is fully put into practice." 188
PartⅡ The Unfolding of Philosophical Contradictions in the Formation of the Feudal System PartⅢ Philosophy in the Early Stage of Chinese Feudal Society PartⅣ The Emergence nd Development of Philosophy in the Age of Slavery PartⅤ New Trends In Philosophical Development in the Period of the Decline of Feudalism and the Emergence of Capitalism PartⅥ The Tortuous Development of Philosophy in the Course of Social Changes in Modern Times