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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION......................................................... 1 CHAPTER 2: BACKGROUND........................................................... 10 2.1 Introduction...................................................................... 10 2.2 Xin ? in the Mencius.......................................................... 16 2.3 Xin ? in the Zhuangzi......................................................... 18 CHAPTER 3: THE NOTIONS OF TIAN ?and XING ?IN XUNZI............... 22 3.1 Introduction...................................................................... 22 3.2 Tian as the Source............................................................... 23 3.3 Xing as Given Qualities......................................................... 30 3.3.1 The Definition of Xing.............................................. 30 3.3.2 The "Badness" of Xing............................................. 33 CHAPTER 4: THE NOTION OF XIN ? ................................................ 42 4.1 Introduction..................................................................... 42 4.2 The Evolution of the Notion of Xin in Ancient Chinese Philosophy.... 42 4.3 The Customary Usage of Xin in the Xunzi.................................. 46 4.4 Xin as the Faculty of Self-Governance....................................... 53 4.4.1 Critical Thinking and Empirical Knowledge..................... 54 4.4.2 The Volitional Aspect of Xin....................................... 64 4.4.3 The Problem of the Blindness of Xin and Xin's Capacities..... 69 CHAPTER 5: LI ?AND MORALITY.................................................. 78 5.1 Introduction...................................................................... 78 5.2 Conventional but Nonarbitrary Names....................................... 80 5.3 Li.................................................................................. 87 5.3.1 The Origin of Li............................................. ........ 88 5.3.2 The Functions of Li.................................................. 90 5.3.3 Li as a Practice....................................................... 94 5.3.4 An "Objective" Aspect in the Notion of Li....................... 97 5.4 Li and the Autonomy of Xin................................................... 102 5.4.1 Legalism and Xunzi.................................................. 103 5.4.2 Xin and Li............................................................. 109 CHAPTER 6: NATURALISM AND AUTONOMY................................... 116 6.1 Introduction..................................................................... 116 6.2 Background for Kant's Ethics................................................. 118 6.3 Kant's Deontological Ethics and the Notion of Autonomy................ 121 6.4 Chinese Naturalism and Xunzi's Notion of the Autonomy of Xin........ 125 CHAPTER 7: XUNZI IN THE HISTORY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY............................................................. 136 7.1 Introduction..................................................................... 136 7.2 Li Zehou's View of Chinese Philosophy.................................... 137 7.3 Humankind and Nature in Xunzi's Philosophy............................. 138 NOTES......................................................................................... 144 BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................ 165 i
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Xunzi, 340-245 B.C. -- Ethics.
Confucian ethics.