Contents
Conventions xiii
Introduction 1
The Analects and Its
Commentaries?1/?Hermeneutic Stance?9
Part I?Commentary as Authority
He Yan et al., Lunyu jijie (Collected
Explanations
of the Analects)
1 He Yan, Authorship, and Xuanxue Thought
23
The Editors?26/? Xuanxue Thought, He
Yan, and the Editorial
Commentaries?30/? Initiating No
Action?35/? Emptiness?39/?
One-Many?42/? Roots-Branches?44/?
Emotional Responses
and Pattern?45
2 Innovation As/Through Form 48
Commentarial Control?53/? Defense of
Confucius 56/? The
Authority of the Kong Commentary?58/?
The Editorial
Commentaries?68?
Part II?Commentary as Philosophy
Huang Kan's Lunyu yishu (Elucidation of
the Meaning of the Analects)
3 Huang Kan and the Shu Genre 79
Huang Kan?80/? Elucidation of the
Meaning and the shu
Genre?85/? The Name "Lunyu"?89/?
Commentaries and
Historical Distance?94
4 The Philosophical Character of
Elucidation of the Meaning 96
Philosophical Antecedents to Huang's
Theory of Human
Nature?97/? Human Nature, Emotional
Responses, and
Pattern?104/? The Sage and Emotional
Responses?110/?
Other Qualities of the Sage?113/? Nine
Grades of Human
Nature?115/? Sages and Worthies?117/?
The Accommodation
Strategy?123/? Traces?127/? Words and
Intended Meaning?131/?
The Cycles of Facility and Obstruction
and the Constant Way?139
5 Buddhist and Institutional Influences
on Huang's Thought 148
Buddhism?148/? The Mahâparinirvâna
Sûtra?150/? The Nine
Grades System?156
Part III?Beyond Method
Zhu Xi's Lunyu jizhu (Collected
Annotations
on the Analects)
6 Zhu Xi, Commentary, and the Analects171
The Four Books?178/? Text, Commentary,
and
Historical Distance?182
7 Zhu Xi on Learning 196
Reading as Learning: Zhu Xi's
Hermeneutics of Reading?196/?
Learning and Human Nature?210/? Learning
to Become a
Sage and the Learning of the Sage?214?
8 The Rhetoric and Reality of Learning to
Be a Sage 221
Zigong?222/? Reciprocity and
Humaneness?223/?
Zengzi?227/? Yiguan, zhong, and
shu?229/? The Mind, the
Nature, Emotional Response, and
Humaneness?233/?
Yan Yuan?244
Part IV?Method and Truth
Liu Baonan and Liu Gongmian's Lunyu
zhengyi
(Correct Meaning of the Analects)
9 Liu Baonan and Liu Gongmian 253
10 Liu Baonan and Han Learning 268
Reliance on the Shiji?268/? Attitude to
the Kong Anguo
Commentary?272/? Han Learning
Movement?275/?
Liu Baonan's Attitudes to Han and Song
Learning?280/?
Xunzi?287/? Yiduan and yiguan?295/?
Zhong, shu, and
Humaneness?297/?
11 Confucius as Cultural Custodian 301
Confucius the Preserver?309/? Wen and
zhi?313/? The
Analects and the Annals?320/? Taboos and
weiyan?324/?
Subtle Words as Subtle Teachings?332/?
Subtle Words
and the Correction of Names?333/? Method
and Truth?343
Epilogue 349
Appendixes
ADevelopments in the Early Commentarial
Tradition of
the Analects 363
Gu Lun, Qi Lun, and Lu Lun?363/?
Dingxian Manuscript?367/?
Zhang Hou Lun?368/? Mr. Zheng's
Annotations?372/? Collected
Explanations of the Analects?375
BThe Eight Commentators Selected by the
Collected
Explanations Editors 378
Kong Anguo?378/? Bao Xian?381/? Mr.
Zhou?382/?
Ma Rong?383/? Zheng Xuan?384/? Chen
Qun?384/?
Wang Su?385
C Early History of Collected Explanations
and Main Editions 386
Kiyohara Editions?388/? Nakahara
Editions?390
D Format and Early History of Elucidation
of the Meaning 391
Earliest Extant Japanese Handwritten
Manuscript
Copies?395/? Japanese and Chinese
Printed Editions?395
E Zhu Xi's Analects Commentaries 397
F Liu Baonan's Writings 407
Reference Matter
Bibliography 413
Index to Analects Passages 445
Subject Index 000,/
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Confucius, Lun yu