Preface
Conventions
Acknowledgments
About the Translators
Introduction by Philip J. Ivanhoe
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
Philip J. Ivanhoe is Distinguished Chair Professor in the College of Confucian Studies and Eastern Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea where he is Director of the Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture. He specializes in East Asian philosophy and religion and their potential for contemporary ethics.
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