Brook Ziporyn is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Northwestern University.
Acknowledgments
PART I
Introduction
The Classical Chinese Philosophical Background
An Overview of Guo Xiang's Philosophical Project
The Problem of Spontaneity and Morality in Earlier Xuanxue
Guo's Solution:The Image of Traces
The Dangers of Traces
PART II
Interactivity Without Traces: "Vanishing (Into) Things"
The Unification of Independence and Interdependence
PART III
Lone-Transformation 99
The Unity of Activity and Nonactivity
APPENDIX A
Guo Xiang's Use of the Term Xing: The Inherency of Change and the Confluence of Chance, Freedom, and Necessity in the Notion of the Self-So
APPENDIX B
Comparative Notes on Freedom and Determinism
Notes
Bibliography
Index