Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought.
Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
(28)
The Sources
5
(5)
Root Metaphors and Conceptual Schemes
10
(8)
Early Chinese Religion
18
(5)
Water and Plant Life
23
(3)
Procedure
26
(3)
Water
29
(34)
Shui, ``Water''
32
(3)
Water with a Source Flows Continuously
35
(4)
Water Flows along a Course
39
(2)
Water Flows Downward
41
(5)
Water Carries Detritus
46
(1)
Soft and Weak, Yielding, and Uncontending
47
(2)
Water Takes Any Shape
49
(1)
Still Water Becomes Level
49
(1)
Still Water Clears Itself of Sediment and Becomes Reflective
50
(3)
Water is Difficult to See
53
(1)
Mountains and Rivers
54
(3)
Water and Fire
57
(6)
The Way and Other Ideas
63
(30)
The ``Way'' (Dao)
66
(4)
The Analects and the Mencius
70
(3)
The Laozi and the Zhuangzi
73
(6)
``Doing Nothing'' (Wuwei)
79
(6)
The Mind/Heart (Xin)
85
(2)
``Breath,'' ``Vapor,'' ``Vital Energy'' (Qi)
87
(6)
Sprouts of Virtue
93
(30)
The Myriad Living Things (Wan Wu)
96
(5)
Virtue or Inner Power (De)
101
(6)
Nature (Xing)
107
(4)
The ``Shoots'' (Cai) (Original Material of Natural Endowment)
111
(2)
The Sprouts (Duan) of The Mind/Heart
113
(2)
Humaneness (Ren)
115
(1)
That which Is So of Itself (Ziran)
115
(2)
The Artificial and the Natural (Wei and Xing)
117
(6)
The Philosophers
123
(26)
The Analects
128
(2)
The Mencius
130
(6)
The Laozi Daodejing
136
(7)
The Zhuangzi
143
(3)
Conclusion
146
(3)
Notes
149
(10)
Bibliography
159
(6)
Chinese Texts
165
(2)
Index of Translations from Chinese Texts
167
(4)
Index of Chinese Terms
171
(4)
Subject Index
175
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