Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The "Moral Universal" from the Perspectives of East Asian Thought

2. The Continuity of Being: Chinese Visions of Nature

3. A Confucian Perspective on Leaning to be Human

4. The Value of the Human in Classical Confucian Thought

5. Jen as a Living Metaphor in the Confucian Analects

6. The Idea of the Human in Mencian Thought: An Approach to Chinese Aesthetics

7. Selfhood and Otherness: The Father-Son Relationship in Confucian Thought

8. Neo-Confucian Religiosity and Human-Relatedness

9. Neo-Confucian Onotology: A Preliminary Questioning

Glossary
Bibliography of Tu Wei-ming
Index