Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index. Translated from the Japanese.
Contents:
Ekken's life and thought -- The text in the context of East Asian Confucianism -- Material force (Qi) -- Zhang Zai's development of the concept of material force -- The influence of the Monism of Qi of Luo Qinshun -- Affirmation and dissent: the significance of the Record of great doubts -- The text in the context of Tokugawa Japan -- The spread of Confucian ideas and values -- Tradition and the individual: the importance of dissent and the centrality of learning -- Philosophical debates regarding principle and material force -- Reappropriating tradition: practical learning and the philosophy of Qi -- Interpretations of Ekken's philosophy of Qi -- Confucian cosmology: organic holism and dynamic vitalism -- Confucian cultivation: harmonizing with change and assisting transformation -- The significance of Qi as an ecological cosmology -- Taigiroku: the record of great doubts -- I: On the transmission of Confucian thought -- On human nature -- On bias, discernment, and selection -- On learning from What is close at hand -- The indivibility of the nature of heaven and Earth and one's physical nature -- Acknowledging differences with the song Confucians -- II: Partiality in the learning of the song Confucians -- Reverence within and rightness without -- Influences from Buddhism and Daoism -- A discussion of the metaphysical and the physical -- The supreme ultimate -- The way and concrete things -- Returning the world to Humaneness -- Reverence and sincerity -- Reverence as the master of the mind -- The inseparability of principle and material force.
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