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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 |
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