Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction xv
5. Abbreviations xxiii
6. Part I Comparative Methodologies
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Sameness, Difference, and the Post-Comparative Turn 5
9. 2 Mining the Emotions, Deepening Ars Contextualis: A Personal Reflection on the Power of Sensitive Reading 15
10. 3 Confucianism as a Tradition of Reconstruction: Returning to the “Way of Heaven”? 27
11. 4 The Development of the Amesian Methodology for Comparative Philosophy 37
12. Part II Issues in Translation
13. Introduction 45
14. 5 Philosophical Ames: On Teaching Chinese Thought as Philosophy 49
15. 6 To Render Ren: Saving Authoritativeness 61
16. 7 Philosophy as Hermeneutics: Reflections on Roger Ames, Translation, and Comparative Methodology 69
17. 8 The Attitude of the Junzi toward Wealth, Social Eminence, Poverty, and Humbleness in Light of Analects 4.5 81
18. Part III Process Cosmology
19. Introduction 95
20. 9 Reflections on David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames’s Understanding of Classical Confucian Cosmology 99
21. 10 Locating the “Numinous” in a Human-Centered Religiousness 109
22. 11 On the Demystification of the Numinous and Mystical in Classical Ruism: Contemporary Musings on the Zhongyong 119
23. 12 Many Confucianisms: From Roger Ames to Jiang Qing on the Interpretive Possibilities of Ruist Traditions 131
24. 13 Seeing Through the Aesthetic Worldview 141
25. Part IV Epistemological Considerations
26. 14 How Do Teachers “Realize” Their Students? Reflections on Zhi in the Analects 151
27. 15 Strategic Imagination in Chinese Philosophy 162
28. 16 Extending Ars Contextualis to Zhu Xi: Using Gewu as an Example 172
29. 17 Truth Bound and Unbound: A Deeper Look at the Western and Chinese Paradigms 180
30. 18 Exploring an Alternative Pre-Qin Logic 190
31. Part V Confucian Role Ethics
32. 19 Role Modeling in Confucian Role Ethics: Appreciating an Amesian Education 201
33. 20 Who’s Afraid of Village Worthies? 216
34. 21 Doubts and Anxiety on a Way without Crossroads 226
35. 22 Applying Amesian Ethics 235
36. Part VI Classical Daoism
37. 23 Making Way for Nothing 245
38. 24 Field, Focus, and Focused Field: A Classical Daoist Worldview 256
39. 25 The Temporality of Dao: Permanence and Transience 267
40. 26 Whence Do You Know the Fish Are Happy? Knowing Well and Living Well 273
41. Part VII Critical Social and Political Directions
42. 27 Confucianism as Transformative Practice: Ethical Impact and Political Pitfalls 283
43. 28 The Promise and Problem of Creativity and Li 292
44. 29 Men Tell Me Paternalism Is Good 301
45. 30 Confucianism Reimagined: A Feminist Project 309
46. Afterword: The Amesian Square in the Perfect Storm 318
47. Contributors 323
48. Index 327