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the contemporary significance of neo-Confucian philosophy
Angle's book is both an exposition of Neo-Confucian philosophy and a sustained dialogue with many leading Western thinkers, especially with those philosophers leading the current renewal of interest in virtue ethics. He argues for a new stage in the development of contemporary Confucian philosophy.
Chronology and Dramatis Personae; Introduction; Part I: Keywords; 1. Sheng/Sage; 1.1 "Sage" in the Confucian Tradition; 1.2 Western Ideals; 1.3 Concerns About Sagehood; 2. Li/Coherence; 2.1 First Steps; 2.2 Subjective and Objective; 2.3 Li and Qi; 2.4 One and Many; 2.5 Normativity and Conclusion; 3. De/Virtue; 3.1 Virtue as a Bridge Concept; 3.2 Early "De, "; 3.3 Neo-Confucian "De, "; 3.4 Final Thoughts; 4. He/Harmony; 4.1 Early Classical Sources; 4.2 The Zhongyong ("Doctrine of the Mean"); 4.3 Song Neo-Confucianism; 4.4 Wang Yangming: Summary and Initial Engagement
Part II: Ethics and Psychology5. The Scope of Ethics: Dialogue with Slote and Murdoch; 5.1 Balance and Harmony in Slote's Agent-Based Ethics; 5.2 Murdoch on the Importance of a Transcendent Good; 5.3 Conclusion: The Scope of Ethics; 6. Challenging Harmony: Consistency, Conflicts, and the Status Quo; 6.1 Nussbaum and Stohr Against "Harmony"; 6.2 Imagination; 6.3 Maximization; 6.4 Residue; 6.5 Dimensions of Dilemmas; 6.6 Emotional Vanilla?; 7. Sagely Ease and Moral Perception; 7.1 Wang Yangming on Analects 2:4; the Centrality of "Commitment,"
7.2 Connecting "Commitment" to "Unity of Knowledge and Action, "7.3 Cua on Commitment to Realizing a Harmonious World; 7.4 A Fuller Picture; Part III: Education and Politics; 8. Learning to Look for Harmony; 8.1 Stages of Ethical Education; 8.2 Practices of Self-improvement; 9. Engaging Practices; 9.1 The Nature of Commitments; 9.2 Stages and the Accessibility of Sagely Ideals; 9.3 Attention Revisited; 9.4 Imagination and Fantasy; 9.5 Dialogue; 9.6 Faith and Belief; 10. The Political Problem; 10.1 Introduction: The Trouble with Sagehood; 10.2 Sage and Politics in Song-Qing Neo-Confucianism
10.3 Separating the Moral from the Political?11. Sages and Politics: A Way Forward; 11.1 Perfection and Fallibility; 11.2 Reverence and Ritual; 11.3 Perfectionism and Institutions; 11.4 Participation; 11.5 Laws and Rights as a System of Second Resort; Conclusion: The Future of Contemporary Confucianisms; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Index Locorum
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and indexes.