Solidly grounded in Chinese primary sources, Neo Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality engages the latest global scholarship to provide an innovative, rigorous, and clear articulation of neo-Confucianism and its application to Western philosophy. Contextualizes neo-Confucianism for contemporary analytic philosophy by engaging with today s philosophical questions and debates Based on the most recent and influential scholarship on neo-Confucianism, and supported by primary texts in Chinese and cross-cultural secondary literature Presents a cohesive analysis of neo-Confucianism by investigating the metaphysical foundations of neo-Confucian perspectives on the relationship between human nature, human mind, and morality Offers innovative interpretations of neo-Confucian terminology and examines the ideas of eight major philosophers, from Zhou Dunyi and Cheng-Zhu to Zhang Zai and Wang Fuzhi Approaches neo-Confucian concepts in an penetrating yet accessible way

Solidly grounded in Chinese primary sources, Neo Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality engages the latest global scholarship to provide an innovative, rigorous, and clear articulation of neo-Confucianism and its application to Western philosophy.* Contextualizes neo-Confucianism for contemporary analytic philosophy by engaging with today's philosophical questions and debates* Based on the most recent and influential scholarship on neo-Confucianism, and supported by primary texts in Chinese and cross-cultural secondary literature* Presents a cohesive analysis of neo-Confucianism by investigating the metaphysical foundations of neo-Confucian perspectives on the relationship between human nature, human mind, and morality* Offers innovative interpretations of neo-Confucian terminology and examines the ideas of eight major philosophers, from Zhou Dunyi and Cheng-Zhu to Zhang Zai and Wang Fuzhi* Approaches neo-Confucian concepts in an penetrating yet accessible way

Preface ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Part I Neo?]Confucian Metaphysics: From Cosmology to Ontology 291 From Nothingness to Infinity: The Origin of Zhou Dunyi's Cosmology 312 The Basic Constituent of Things: Zhang Zai's Monist Theory of Qi 613 Cheng-Zhu School's Normative Realism: The Principle of the Universe 854 Wang Fuzhi's Theory of Principle Inherent in Qi 103Part II Human Nature, Human Mind, and the Foundation of Human Morality 1235 Zhu Xi's Internal Moral Realism: Human Nature Is Principle 1256 Lu Xiangshan and Wang Yangming's Doctrine of Mind Is Principle 1397 Wang Fuzhi's Theory of Daily Renewal of Human Nature and His Moral Psychology 157Part III The Cultivation of Virtue, Moral Personality, and the Construction of a Moral World 1818 Zhang Zai on Cultivating Moral Personality 1839 The Cheng Brothers' Globaist Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 20510 Zhu Xi's Methodology for Cultivating Sagehood: Moral Cognitivism and Ethical Rationalism 22711 Wang Yangming';s Intuitionist Model of Innate Moral Sense and Moral Reflexivism 24512 Constructing a Moral World: Wang Fuzhi's Social Sentimentalism 265References 285Index 301