Chinese Philosophy

Zhouyi: The starting point of Chinese philosophy -- A mystical and profound classic -- From Taiji to eight Trigrams -- The philosophy of Zhouyi -- Chinese political philosophy: Pre-Qin philosophers -- Confucius (Kongzi): Family reverence as the root of humanity -- Mencius (Mengzi): Governing the state with humane love -- Laozi: The great Dao is like water -- Zhuangzi: Wandering at ease without self -- Mozi and other pre-Qin thinkers -- Xunzi's political theory -- Han Fei's art of rulership -- Sunzi's art of war -- Chinese metaphysics: Interpretations of the world from Han to Tang Dynasties -- Chinese cosmology in the Han Dynasty -- The ontology of being and nothingness in the Wei-Jin Dynasties -- Chinese metaphysics of emptiness (Sunyata): Buddhism in the Sui and Tang Dynasties -- Chan Buddhism: Enlightening Buddhist wisdom -- Chinese epistemology: Song-Ming philosophers on the relationship between mind-heart and things/events -- From Han Yu to Zhang Zai -- The Cheng brothers and the "Luo school" -- Zhu Xi: Extinguishing human desires in order to keep Heavenly Li -- Lu Jiuyuan: The cosmos does not exist without mind -- Wang Yangming: Nothing is outside one's mind -- The Dao of Chinese philosophy: Its sustainment and creativity -- Three philosophers between the Ming and Qing Dynasties -- Modern Chinese philosophy as responses to Western philosophies -- Modern Chinese philosophy: New confucianism and east-west comparative philosophy -- Hu Shi, Fung Yu-lan, and the discipline of modern Chinese philosophy -- Xiong Shili and new confucianism -- Contemporary east-west comparative philosophy.