Title: A source book in Chinese philosophy.
Authors: Chan, Wing-tsit, 1901-1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1963
Subjects: Philosophy, Chinese.; Philosophy China History Sources.
Abstract: Anthology tracing the entire history of Chinese philosophy from Confucianism to contemporary Communism.
Contents: Part I -- Chronology of dynasties -- Chronology of philosophers -- 1. The growth of humanism -- Ancestors and the Lord on High -- The mandate of heaven, ancestors and virtue -- The "Great Norm" -- Spirits, the soul and immortality -- 2. The humanism of Confucius -- Selections from the Analects -- 3. Idealistic Confucianism: Mencius -- The Book of Mencius: Book 6, part 1 -- Additional selections -- 4. Moral and social programs: The Great Learning -- 5. Spiritual dimensions: The Doctrine of the Mean -- 6. Naturalistic Confucianism: Hsun Tzu -- "On Nature" -- "On the Rectification of Names" -- "The Nature of Man is Evil" -- 7. The natural way of Lao Tzu -- The Lao-Tzu (Tao-te ching) -- 8. The mystical way of Chuang Tzu -- "The Equality of Things" -- "The Great Teacher" -- Additional selections: (1) The nature and reality of Tao -- (2) Tao everywhere -- (3) Constant flux -- (4) Evolution -- (5) Tao as transformation and one -- (6) Nature vs. man -- (7) Calmness of mind --^