Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Explanatory Note and Abbreviations Used IX
4. Contributors XI
5. Contents XV
6. Introduction 1
7. Practical Learning in Yen Yuan, Chu Hsi, and Wang Yang-Ming, Chung-Ying Cheng 37
8. On the Abstraction’ of Ming Thought: Some Concrete Evidence from the Philosophy of Lo Ch’in-shun 69
9. Sagehood as a Secular and Spiritual Ideal in Tokugawa Neo-Confucianism 127
10. The Practical Learning of Chu Shun-Shui, Julia Ching 189
11. Practical Learning in the Chu Hsi School: Yamazaki Ansai and Kaibara Ekiken 231
12. Nakae Toju’s Religious Thought and its Relation to Jitsugaku Yamashita Ryūji 307
13. Kumazawa Banzan and “Jitsugaku”: Toward Pragmatic Action 337
14. “Jitsugaku” and Empirical Rationalism in the First Half of the Tokugawa Period 375
15. “Jitsugaku” as an Ontological Conception: Continuities and Discontinuities in Early and Mid-Tokugawa Thought 471
16. Index 515