James Behuniak, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University.
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
Sketch of the Argument
xx
Methodology and Key Terms
xxii
Chapter 1 The Cosmological Background
1
(22)
Energy and Propensity
1
(5)
Shape and Spontaneity
6
(4)
Disposition and Spontaneity
10
(4)
Zhuangzi and Shape
14
(3)
Characteristics of Chinese Cosmology
17
(6)
Chapter 2 The Role of Feeling
23
(24)
Feeling, Doctrine, and Dao
23
(3)
Feeling as Transactional
26
(6)
Aspiration and Courage
32
(5)
Internal/External and the Botanical Model
37
(4)
Desire, Coherence, and Integration
41
(6)
Chapter 3 Family and Moral Development
47
(26)
Spontaneous vs. Technical Approaches
47
(3)
The Mohist Challenge
50
(3)
Recovering the Confucian Measure
53
(6)
Family as the Root
59
(5)
Family and Extension
64
(9)
Chapter 4 The Human Disposition
73
(28)
Relationships and the Human Disposition
73
(7)
The Human Disposition as Good
80
(7)
The Four Sprouts and the Family
87
(3)
The Satisfaction of Becoming Human
90
(5)
The Value of the Person
95
(6)
Chapter 5 Advancing the Human Way
101
(28)
The Constraints on Aspiration
101
(8)
The Conditions for Political Legitimacy
109
(2)
The Conditions for Human Achievement
111
(3)
Human Virtue in the Sacrifices
114
(7)
Aspiration and the Human Way
121
(8)
Afterword
129
(4)
Notes
133
(40)
References
173
(6)
Index
179
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