Law and morality in ancient China Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. I	Introduction	1
1	The Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao	1
1.1	Text	6
1.2	Title	7
1.3	Authorship	9
1.4	Dating	12
2	Methodology	19
2.1	Philosophy of Law: A Hermeneutical Framework	20
Ch. II	The Natural Way of Huang-Lao	27
1	Foundational Naturalism	27
1.1	Huang-Lao Naturalism	28
1.2	Huang-Lao Foundationalism	31
2	The Nature of Nature	41
2.1	Nature as Impersonal	42
2.2	Nature as Constant	43
2.3	Nature as Rule Governed	43
3	The Place of Humans Within the Natural Order	51
3.1	Dao	51
3.2	Xing Ming: Forms and Names	55
3.3	Li: Principle	61
3.4	Fa: Law	61
4	Following the Way	62
4.1	Naturalist Foundations of Social Institutions	62
4.2	Metaphors of Compliance	64
4.3	Huang-Lao Epistemology	70
Ch. III	The Social and Political Philosophy of Huang-Lao	75
1	Huang-Lao Natural Law Jurisprudence	76
1.1	Rule of Law	76
1.2	Rule of Natural Law	79
2	The Huang-Lao State	84
2.1	Yellow Emperor as Symbol	84
2.2	Centralized Feudal Bureaucracy	92
2.3	Government for the People	98
Ch. IV	The Anthropocentric Pragmatism of Confucius	103
1	General Character of Confucius's Philosophy	105
1.1	Pragmatic Coherence versus Foundational Correspondence	105
1.2	Pragmatic Coherence and the Logical-Aesthetic Distinction	113
2	Confucius's Social and Political Philosophy	118
2.1	Jurisprudence	118
2.2	Politics of Harmony	126
2.3	A Huang-Lao Critique	133
Ch. V	The Pragmatic Statesmanship of Han Fei	139
1	Han Fei's Legal Positivism	140
1.1	Rule by Law	140
1.2	Rule by Positive Law	142
2	Han Fei's Pragmatic Arts of Rulership	153
2.1	The Practical Way of Han Fei	154
2.2	Han Fei's Legalist State	161
Ch. VI	The Daoist Ways of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi	171
1	Lao Zi's Way	172
1.1	Zhi as Discovery	177
1.2	Dao as Emergent Order	191
2	Zhuang Zi's Way	197
2.1	Zhi Dao: Realizing an Emergent Order	197
2.2	Zhuang Zi's Politics of Harmony	205
Ch. VII	The Evolution of Huang-Lao Thought	217
1	Antecedents	218
1.1	Emergence of Naturalism	218
1.2	Jixia Academy	224
2	Ascendence in the Early Han	242
2.1	Huang-Lao: A Response to the Times	242
2.2	Huang-Lao Policies and Early Han Politics	244
3	The Fall from Power	249
3.1	Court Intrigue	249
3.2	Explaining the Fall	251
4	Denouement	256
4.1	Huang-Lao and Religious Daoism	256
4.2	Naturalism and Immortality	257
Ch. VIII	Epilogue	263
1	Huang-Lao and Contemporary Philosophy	265
2	Huang-Lao and Contemporary Jurisprudence in the PRC	266
	Appendix: He Guan Zi and Huang-Lao Thought	273
	Notes	285
	Bibliography	355
	Index	375