The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy: (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy collects new essays by both senior and up and coming contributors, on important texts and figures in the history of Chinese thought. The essays cover both well-known texts such as the Analects and the Zhuangzi as well as many of the lesser-known thinkers in the classical and post-classical Chinese tradition. Most of the chapters focus on thinkers or texts in one of three important historical movements: Classical ("pre-Qin") Chinese philosophy, Chinese Buddhism, and the Confucian response to Buddhism ("neo-Confucianism" broadly construed). The volume provides an accessible point of entry into the more challenging and technical post-classical tradition, including Chinese Buddhism and neo-Confucianism from the Song dynasty onward. Topics covered include ethics and its foundations, politics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, and metaphysics. Each essay presents cutting-edge work on important topics in the Chinese tradition and yet is written for a general philosophical audience.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction List of contributors Part I: The Foundations of ethics 1. A Theological Voluntarist Consequentialism in the Mozi Hui Chieh Loy 2. The Nature of Moral Norms in Xunzi's Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe 3. Qing as the Foundation of Xunzi's Naturalist Ethics Chenyang Li 4. Dai Zhen on the Common Affirmability of Ethical Judgments Justin Tiwald Part II: Ethics and Value 5. Well-Being in Early Chinese Philosophy Richard Kim 6. Human Nature in the Ethics of Mengzi and Xunzi David Wong 7. A Daoist Critique of Morality Chris Fraser 8. Harmonizing Chinese Buddhist Ethics Nicholaos Jones 9. Moral Failure, Ethical Roles, and Metaphysics in the Great Learning and the Mean Bryan W. Van Norden Part III: Philosophical Psychology 10. Virtuous Contempt (wù) in the Analects Hagop Sarkissian 11. Kongzi as Therapeutic Philosopher Erin Cline 12. Being Spontaneous: Zhuangzi on Mastery Karyn Lai Part IV: Politics 13. Dependence and Autonomy in Early Confucianism Aaron Stalnaker 14. The Family-State Analogy in the Mengzi Loubna El Amine 15. The Dao of Han Fei Eirik Lang Harris Part V: Metaphysics 16. When Buddha Nature was not Buddha Nature: Fo'xing, Shen, and the Birth of a Universal Mind in Early Medieval China Tao Jiang 17. How It All Depends: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Huayan Buddhism Li Kang 18. Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Metaphysics of Human Nature: Explanatory, Not Foundational Yong Huang Part VI: Knowledge 19. Xunzi and the Authority of Tradition Eric L. Hutton 20. Laozi and Zhu Xi on Knowledge and Virtue May Sim 21. Knowing-To in Wang Yangming Waldemar Brys 22. Knowledge of Human Nature and Morality in Contemporary Confucianism David Elstein Index

About the Author :
Justin Tiwald is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He works on Chinese philosophers and texts, especially those from the influential classical and neo-Confucian periods. His books include Neo-Confucianism, with Stephen C. Angle (2017) and Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy, with Bryan W. Van Norden (2014). With Eric L. Hutton, he is a series co-editor of Oxford Chinese Thought. Previously he was Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley and a research fellow at Princeton University.

Review :
This book focuses on thinkers and texts of three important historical movements: Classical Chinese philosophy, Chinese Buddhism, and the Confucian response to Buddhism. It offers new essays on important figures in the history of Chinese thought, written by the senior and the new contributors. This account is written for the academic and the general philosophical audience as well.