Zhu Xi Selected Writings

Philip J. Ivanhoe (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Chair Professor of East Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion at City University of Hong Kong, where he also serves as director of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (CEACOP), the Laboratory on Korean Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives, and the project Eastern and Western Conceptions of Oneness, Virtue, and Human Happiness. He specializes in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion and its potential for contemporary ethics.

Preface
Conventions
Acknowledgments
About the Translators
Introduction
Chronology of Important Events in Zhu Xi's Life

Chapter One: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics by Philip J. Ivanhoe
Chapter Two: Moral Psychology and Cultivating the Self by Curie Virág
Chapter Three: Politics and Government by Justin Tiwald
Chapter Four: Poetry, Literature, Textual Study, and Hermeneutics by On-cho Ng
Chapter Five: Social Conditions of His Time by Beverly Bossler
Chapter Six: Heaven, Ghosts and Spirits, and Ritual by Hoyt Tillman
Chapter Seven: Criticisms of Buddhism, Daoism, and the Learning of the Heart-mind by Ellen Neskar and Ari Borrell
Chapter Eight: Science and Natural Philosophy by Yung Sik Kim
Chapter Nine: Zhu Xi's Commentarial Work: Abiding in the Mean and the Constant by Daniel Gardner

Key Terms of Art
Index