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Tables of Contents for Focusing the Familiar
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong
1
1
The Importance of the Zhongyong
1
2
Problems of Translation
3
16
Identifying ``Philosophical'' Texts
3
2
The Language of Focus and Field
5
14
Things, Processes, Events
8
3
Causality, Power, Creativity
11
4
Clarity, Univocity, Linguistic Clustering
15
4
Qi and Correlative Cosmology: The Interpretive Context of the Zhongyong
19
7
The Central Argument of the Zhongyong
26
126
Cheng and ``Creativity''
30
5
``Creativity (cheng ),'' ``Natural Tendencies (xing ),'' and ``Emotions (qing )''
35
3
``Family'' as Governing Metaphor
38
2
Ritual Propriety (li ) in the Zhongyong
40
91
Ritual Propriety (li) and ``Focusing the Familiar (zhongyong )''
43
7
Ritual Propriety (li) and Education (jiao ) as Growth and Extension
50
3
Notes to the Introduction
53
8
Glossary of Key Terms
61
28
Focusing the Familiar: A Translation of the Zhongyong
89
26
Notes to the Translation
115
16
Appendix
1. The Text of the Zhongyong
131
17
1.1 The Zhongyong and the ``Zisi-Mencius Lineage''
131
6
1.2 Zisi and the ``Five Modes of Proper Conduct (wuxing )'' Doctrine
137
6
1.3 The Zhongyong: A Composite Document
143
2
1.4 Dating the Zhongyong
145
1
1.5 Master Zisi: The Person
146
2
2. Interpretations of the Zhongyong
148
4
2.1 Revisiting the Opening Passage
148
2
2.2 Why Zhongyong is not a ``Doctrine of the Mean''
150
2
Notes to the Appendix
152
3
Bibliography of Works Cited
155
6
Index
161