Chinese-Western Comparative Metaphysics and Epistemology

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Metaphysics of Nature and Metaphysics of the Mind

Chapter 1: Cosmo-Substantial Metaphysics in Chinese and Aristotelian Philosophy

Chapter 2: The Cogito and Onto-Being of the Mind: Philosophical Early Modernity in Descartes’ and Wang Yangming’s Metaphysics

Chapter 3: Leibniz and Wang Yangming on the Joining of Morals to Metaphysics

Part II: The Foundation and Source of Knowledge

Chapter 4: Plato’s and Xunzi’s Consonant Epistemology and Normalization of the Musico-Poetic Discourse

Chapter 5: Mental Cloudiness and Partial Knowledge in Chinese and Western Epistemology

Part III: Hermeneutical and Methodological Approaches to Knowledge

Chapter 6: The Dao and the Form: Innate Divisions and Natural Hermeneutics in Plato and Zhuangzi

Chapter 7: Onto-Mind Reading in the Metaphysics of Leibniz and Wang Yangming

Chapter 8: Chinese Dialectic of Deduction and Induction: Bo-yue博约and ge-wu zhi-zhi格物致知

Bibliography

Index