Recent interest in Confucianism has a tendency to suffer from essentialism and idealism. This volume addresses this misconstrual and misrepresentation of Confucianism by presenting a philosophically critical account of different Confucian thinkers and schools, across place (China, Korea, and Japan) and time (the 10th to 19th centuries).

• Acknowledgments


• Conventions


• Introduction:


• Part I: China


• Preface: Two Schools of neo-Confucianism


• Chapter One: Cheng Hao (1032-85)


• Chapter Two: Cheng Yi (1033-1107)


• Chapter Three: Dai Zhen (1722-1776)


• Summary: Philology, Psychology, and Anthropology


• Part II: Korea


• Preface: The Great Debates of Korean Confucianism


• Chapter Four: The Four-Seven Debate


• Chapter Five: The Horak Debate


• Chapter Six: Jeong Yakyong (1762-1836)


• Summary: Experience, Evidence, and Motivation


• Part III: Japan


• Preface: Confucianism, Shinto, and Bushido


• Chapter Seven: Nakae Toju (1608-48)


• Chapter Eight: Yamazaki Ansai (1619-1682)


• Chapter Nine: Ito Jinsai (1627-1705)


• Summary: Duty, Love, and Heaven


• Conclusion:


• Works Cited


• Index

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.