Shuhai Wenyuan Content: Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy excerpts are duplicated verbatim from secondary sources, with the occasional addition of Chinese characters for clarity and changing all romanization to pinyin to maintain consistency throughout the site. Although we make every effort to select a wide range of thinkers and representative examples of their opinions, we do not pretend to have yet succeeded in achieving complete comprehensiveness of all relevant work in print. We are continually updating our site and are always seeking more sources.

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The following is our master list of secondary sources; those with an asterisk have been excerpted on the site. If you would like to suggest additions or priorities, please contact us with detailed information. For information on how to cite these texts in your own bibliography, please see our Citation page.

Allan, Sarah. The Way of Water and the Sprouts of Virtue. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Ames, Roger T. The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.

*---. "The Mencian Conception of Ren xing: Does it Mean 'Human Nature'?" Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham. Ed. Henry Rosemont, Jr. La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company. La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company, 1991. 143-75.

---. Trans. Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.

---. "Death as Transformation in Classical Daoism." Death and Philosophy. Ed. Jeff Malpas and Robert C. Solomon. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

*Ames, Roger T. and Henry Rosemont, Jr. Trans. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998..

*Ames, Roger T. and David L. Hall. Trans. Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.

---. Daodejing: "Making this Life Significant": A Philosophical Translation. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.

Ames, Roger T., Wimal Dissanayake, and Thomas P. Kasulis. Ed. Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

*Berkson, Mark. "Language: The Guest of Reality--Zhuangzi and Derrida on Language, Reality, and Skillfulness." Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi. Ed. Paul Kjellberg and Philip J. Ivanhoe. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 97-126.

Berthrong, John. Comparing Creativity: Whitehead, Neville, and Chu Hsi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Bishop, Donald H. Ed. Chinese Thought: An Introduction. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, 1985.

Boodberg, Peter A. Selected Works of Peter A. Boodberg. Comp. Alvin P. Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Carus, Paul, and D.T. Suzuki. The Canon of Reason and Virtue: Lao Tzu's Tao Teh King. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1913.

*Chan, Alan K.L. Two Visions of the Way: A Study of the Wang Pi and Ho-shang Kung Commentaries on the Lao-Tzu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

*Chan, Wing-tsit. Comp. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

*---. Trans. The Way of Lao Tzu (Tao-te ching). New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1963b.

Chang Chung-yuan. Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Poetry. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.

---. Trans. Tao: A New Way of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao Te Ching with an Introduction and Commentaries. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975.

*Chen, Ellen M. Trans. The Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

Cheng, Chung-ying. New Dimensions in Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

*Crandell, Michael Mark. "On Walking without Touching the Ground: 'Play' in the Inner Chapters of the Chuang-tzu." Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu. Victor H. Mair. Ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. 101-24.

*Creel, Herrlee G. Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Ts -tung. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953.

*Dawson, Raymond. Trans. Confucius: The Analects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993..

Defoort, Carine. Trans. Heguanzi. The Pheasant Cap Master: A Rhetorical Reading. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

*Eno, Robert. The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.

*Eno, Robert. "Cook Ding's Dao and the Limits of Philosophy." Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi. Ed. Paul Kjellberg and Philip J. Ivanhoe. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 127-51.

Farquhar, Judith. Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

Fingarette, Herbert. Confucius: The Secular as Sacred. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1972.

Fukunaga Mitsuji. Trans. Roshi. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1968.

*Fung, Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume I: The Period of the Philosophers (from the beginnings to circa 100 B.C.). Trans. Derk Bodde. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1937, 1952.

*---. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy. Trans. E.R. Hughes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1947.

*---. A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. Ed. Derk Bodde. New York: The Free Press, 1948.

Geaney, Jane. On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

Giles, Herbert A. The Remains of Lao Tzu. London: John Murray, 1886.

Girardot, N.J. Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (hun-tun). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Graham, A.C. Trans. The Book of Lieh-tzu: A Classic of Tao. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.

---. Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1978.

*---. "Taoist Spontaneity and the Dichotomy of 'Is' and 'Ought'." Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu. Victor H. Mair. Ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. 3-23.

---. Studies in Chinese Philosophy & Philosophical Literature. Singapore: The Institute East Asian Philosophies, 1986.

---. Trans. Chuang-Tzu: The Inner Chapters. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981.

*---. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company, 1989.

Granet, Marcel. La pensee chinoise. Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1934.

Hall, David L. "The Import of Analysis in Classical China--A Pragmatic Appraisal." Analysis in China. Ed. Bo Mou. LaSalle: Open Court Publishing Company, 2000.

---. "Buddhism, Taoism and the Question of Ontological Difference." Essays in Honor of Nolan Pliny Jacobson. Ed. S. Pulgandla and David Miller. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994.

---. "Logos, Mythos, Chaos: Metaphysics as the Quest for Diversity." New Essays in Metaphysics. Ed. Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.

---. The Uncertain Phoenix: Adventures Toward a Post-Cultural Sensibility. New York: Fordham University Press, 1982.

---. "Process and Anarchy: A Taoist Vision of Creativity." Philosophy East and West 28.3 (July 1978): 271-285.

*Hall, David L. and Roger T. Ames. Thinking Through Confucius. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.

---. Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

---. Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

*Hansen, Chad. Language and Logic in Ancient China. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1983.

*---. A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

---. "Chinese Logic." Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1998.

*Harbsmeier, Christoph and Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 7, Part I: Language and Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Henricks, Robert G. Trans. Lao-Tzu: Te-Tao Ching. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.

Hughes, E.R. Ed. Trans. Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times. London: J.M. dent & Sons Ltd. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1942.

Ivanhoe, Philip J. Trans. The Daodejing of Laozi. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2002.

Jullien, Francois. The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China. Trans. Janet Lloyd. New York: Zone Books, 1995.

Karlgren, Bernhard. "Notes on Lao-Tse." Stockholm: The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (1975) 47-48: 1-18.

---. Grammata Serica. Stockholm: The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 12 (1940).

---. Grammata Serica Recensa. Stockholm: The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 29 (1957).

Keightley, David. "Shang Divination and Metaphysics." Philosophy East and West (1988) 38:367-97.

*Kjellberg, Paul and Philip J. Ivanhoe. Ed. Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Knoblock, John, Trans. Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Three Vol. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988-94.

*Kohn, Livia. Taoist Mystical Philosophy: The Scripture of Western Ascension. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

*---. Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Kohn, Livia and Michael LaFargue. Ed. Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

LaFargue, Michael. Tao and Method: A Reasoned Approach to the Tao Te Ching. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

---. The Tao of the Tao Te Ching. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Lau, D.C. Trans. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching. London: Penguin Books, 1963.

---. Trans. Mencius. London: Penguin Books, 1970.

---. Trans. Confucius: The Analects. London: Penguin Books, 1979.

---. Trans. Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1982.

Lau, D.C. and Roger T. Ames. Trans. Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

---. Trans. Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998,

Legge, James. Trans. Li Chi: Book of Rites. Sacred Books of the East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1885.

---. Trans. The Texts of Taoism. Sacred Books of the East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1891.

*---. Trans. The Chinese Classics I. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893.

*---. Trans. The Chinese Classics II. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1895..

---. Trans. The I Ching: The Book of Changes. Sacred Books of the East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1899.

*Le Blanc, Charles. Huai Nan Tzu . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1985.

Lloyd, Geoffrey, and Nathan Sivin. The Way and the Word. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

*Mair, Victor H. Ed. Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.

*---. Trans. Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way: Lao Tzu. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

Major, John. Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

---. "A Note on the Translation of Two Technical Terms in Chinese Science: wu-hsing and hsiu." Early China 2 (1976): 1-3.

---. "Reply to Richard Kunst's Comments on hsiu and wu hsing." Early China 3 (1977): 69-70.

Makeham, John. Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Maspero, Henri. La Chine Antique. Paris: DeBoccard, 1927. Translated by F.A. Kierman, Jr. as China in Antiquity. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1978.

Moore, Charles A. Ed. The Chinese Mind: Essentials of Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Honolulu: East-West Center Press, University of Hawaii Press, 1967.

*Mote, Frederick W. Intellectual Foundations of China, Second Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1971, 1989.

*Munro, Donald J. The Concept of Man in Early China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969.

---. The Concept of Man in Contemporary China. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1979.

---. Ed. Individualism and Holism: Studies in Confucian and Taoist Values. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1985.

Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China Vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956.

Neville, Robert Cummings. The Cosmology of Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.

Nivison, David S. The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court, 1996.

*Oshima, Harold H. "A Metaphorical Analysis of the Concept of Mind in the Chuang-tzu. Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu. Victor H. Mair. Ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. 63-84.

*Rosemont, Henry, Jr. Ed. Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham. La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company, 1991.

*Roth, Harold. "Who Compiled the Chuang Tzu?" Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham. Ed. Henry Rosemont, Jr. La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company. La Salle: Open Court Publishing Company, 1991. 79-128.

Roth, Harold D. Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

*Schwartz, Benjamin I. The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985.

Shun, Kwong-loi. Mencius and Early Chinese Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Sivin, Nathan. Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections. Aldershot, HANTS: Variorum, 1995.

Spalding, K.J. Three Chinese Thinkers. Nanking, China: The National Central Library, 1947.

T'ang Chun-i. "The t'ien ming (heavenly ordinance) in pre-Ch'in China." Philosophy East and West 11 (1962): 195-218.

*Tu, Wei-ming. Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

*Tu, Wei-ming. Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Van Norden, Bryan. Confucius and the Analects: New Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Wagner, Rudolf G. The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Waley, Arthur. Trans. The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. London: Allen and Unwin, 1934.

*Waley, Arthur. Trans. The Analects of Confucius. New York: Vintage Books, 1938, 1989.

Wang, Aihe. Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

*Watson, Burton. Trans. Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

Watson, Burton. Trans. The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.

*Welch, Holmes. Taoism: The Parting of the Way. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957, 1965.

Wilhelm, Hellmut. Heaven, Earth, and Man in the Book of Changes. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.

Wilhelm, Richard. Trans. The I Ching or Book of Changes. Trans. Cary F. Baynes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, 1967.

*Wu, Kuang-ming. The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.