Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese Culture

Abstract

Confucianism and Constructive Postmodernism ; What Kind of Age Are We in Now? ; The Rise of Two Trends of Thought in China in the 1990s; In the New Historical Period of Chinese Revival and in the Context of Globalization, Traditional Chinese Culture May Well Make an Epochal Contribution to Human Society; “Man and Nature as a Closely Related Living Community” and “Unity of Man and Heaven”; Constructive Postmodernism, a Second Enlightenment and Confucian Renxue (Learning of Goodness); Defining “Human” and Examining “Human Rights” from the Standpoint of Li: A Traditional Chinese Concept ; The Contemporary Significance of Confucianism ; Why Addressing the Topic “The Contemporary Significance of Confucianism”? ; Various Points of View About the “Learning of the Chinese Classics,” Especially Confucianism, in Academic and Cultural Circles ; What are the Main Issues in Contemporary Human Society? ; The Relationship Between Man and Nature ; The Relationship Between Man and Man ; The Relationship Between Body and Mind ; References ; Toward a Chinese Hermeneutics ; Is there a Subject Called “Hermeneutics” in Ancient China? ; Is it Possible to Find Out General Patterns of Interpretation in the Study of Chinese Classics?; Zuo Chuan’s Interpretation of Chun Qiu ; Ji Ci’s Interpretation of I Ching ; Han Fei Tzu’s Interpretation of Lao Tzu ; Glossary ; References ; Emotion in Pre-Qin Ruist Moral Theory: An Explanation of “Dao Begins in Qing”; On “Dao Begins in Qing” ; The Basis for the Pre-Qin Ruist Emphasis on Qing ; On “Qing Arises from Xing” 情生于性 ; Distinguishing Qing and Desire ; Some Reflections on New Confucianism in Chinese Mainland Culture of the 0s ; The Problem of Harmonious Communities in Ancient China ; An Inquiry into the Possibility of a Third-Phase Development of Confucianism ; Immanence and Transcendence in Chinese Chan Buddhism; Chinese Chan Buddhism Neither Valued Scriptures nor Established in Words, but Claimed Everything Should Listen to the Essential Mind ; Chinese Chan Buddhism Broke Outmoded Conventions and Abolished Sitting in Meditation, but Only Valued Seeing the Nature and Accomplishing the Buddhahood ; Chinese Chan Buddhism Did Not Worship Images, Rather Abused the Buddhas and Berated the Masters, but Claimed “One Who Is Enlightened in One Thought Is a Buddha” ; The Introduction of Indian Buddhism into China: A Perspective on the Meaning of Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Comparative Religion ; The Introduction of Indian Buddhism into China and the Popularization of the School of Prajna Teachings [bo-re xue] in the Wei and Jin Periods ; The Beginnings of Buddhism in China ; The An Shigao of Hinayana School ; The Zhi-lou-jia-qian of Mahayana School ; The Interaction Between the Imported Ideological Culture—Buddhism—And the Previously Existing Ideological Culture of China ; Adaptation to Tradition ; The Enrichment and Intensification of Tradition ; Relative Excellence and Real Contribution ; The Comparative Study of Philosophies and Regions ; The Search for Common Laws ; Attention to the Specific Characteristics of a Culture ; The Isolation of Old Topics and New Issues ; Relationships Between Traditional and Imported Thought and Culture in China: The Importation of Buddhism ; Vocabulary ; On the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) ; The Origin and Characteristics of Daoism ; General Background ; The Development of Daoism ; Characteristics of Daoism ; Vocabulary ; The Daoist Religion of China ; The Attempt of Matteo Ricci to Link Chinese and Western Cultures ; Modes of Relating Oriental and Occidental Cultures ; Linking Catholicism with Confucianism (Heru) ; Complementing Confucianism (Buru) ; Transcending Confucianism (Chaoru) ; Concordance with Confucianism (Furu) ; “Body and Use” and the Correlation of Chinese and Western Harmony ; The Possible Orientations of Chinese Culture in the Context of Globalization ; Prospects for the Study of the History of Chinese Philosophy and the Issue of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful in China’s Traditional Philosophy ; Chinese Philosophy as a Threefold Integration ; Integration of Heaven with Man: The True ; Integration of Knowledge with Practice: The Good ; Integration of Feeling with Scenery: The Beautiful ; The Study of Chinese Philosophy and the Reason for Being Human ; Questions Concerning the Categorical System of Traditional Chinese Philosophy ; The Significance of Studying the Categorical System of Traditional Chinese Philosophy ; How to Study the Concepts and Categories of Traditional Chinese Philosophy ; Analysis of the Meaning of Concepts and Categories ; Analysis of the Development of the Meanings of Concepts and Categories ; Analysis of the Systems of Concepts and Categories of Philosophers (or Philosophical Schools) ; Analysis of the Similarities and Differences Between the Concepts and Categories of Chinese and Foreign Philosophies ; A Tentative Theory of the Categorical System of Traditional Chinese Philosophy ; Discussion ; New Progress in the Study of the History of Chinese Philosophy ; The History of Chinese Philosophy as the History of Knowledge of the Chinese Nation ; The Concept and Category of Traditional Chinese ; The Comparison and Analysis of Traditional Chinese and Foreign Philosophies ; The Method Employed by Traditional Chinese Philosophy in Establishing a System ; A Reconsideration of the Question of “The True, the Good, and the Beautiful” in Traditional Chinese Philosophy ; Confucius’ Demands of the Realm of Life ; Laozi’s Quest in the Realm of Life ; Zhuangzi’s Quest in the Realm of Life ; Brief Conclusion ; Chinese Character ; Chinese Traditional Cultures and Corporate Management ; A Study of the Question of China’s Cultural Development ; The Enlightenment and Its Difficult Journey in China ; The Eighteenth-Century European “Enlightenment Movement” and China’s Sixteenth-Century Late Ming “Enlightenment Trend of Thought” ; The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society Amid the “Enlightenment” of the West and Its Struggle to Advance Through Manifold Obstacles ; China’s Own Enlightenment and Its Slogan of “Science and Democracy”: Have They Come to Fruition? ; Whither Enlightenment in Chinese Society? ; The Coexistence of Cultural Diversity: Sources of the Value of Harmony in Diversity ; Introduction ; Harmony in Diversity ; Commonalities Across Cultural Traditions ; Regional Diversity and the Bidirectional Nature of Cultural Selection ; Conclusion ; On the Clash and Coexistence of Human Civilizations ; “The Clash of Civilizations” and the “New Empire” Theory ; “Coexistence of Civilizations” and New Axial Age ; Can Chinese Culture Make Contributions to the Coexistence of Civilizations? ; The Confucian Doctrine of Ren (仁, Benevolence, Virtue) Is a Resource of Thinking with a Positive Meaning for the “Coexistence of Civilizations” ; The Taoist Doctrine of the Way (tao) Can Provide Significant Resources of Thinking to Prevent “The Clash of Civilizations” ; Constructing “Chinese Philosophy” in Sino-European Cultural Exchange ; Western Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy as an Independent Discipline ; Paradigms and Frameworks of Western Philosophy and Potential Problems in Chinese Philosophy ; Future Developments in Chinese Philosophy ; Chinese Glossary;