Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Mou Zongsan's Intellectual Itinerary: A Few Elements -- Mou Zongsan and Kant -- Mou Zongsan's Buddhist "Toolkit": "Common Space of Evaluation" and Integration of Teachings -- Contribution and Limitations of the Current Work -- Chapter One Setting the Ground for a True Autonomy of the Moral Subject -- Preliminary Remarks on the Moral Subject in Mou Zongsan's Philosophy -- Subjectivity and the Variety of Confucian Traditions -- 1. The Zhu Xi-Cheng Yi School -- 2. The Lu Xiangshan-Wang Yangming School -- 3. The Zhang Zai-Cheng Hao-Hu Hong-Liu Zongzhou School -- 4. Concluding Remarks About Mou Zongsan's Interpretation of Confucian Orthodoxy -- Autonomy of the Will in Kantian Philosophy: Mou Zongsan's Critique -- 1. Mou Zongsan's Fundamental Critique of Kant's Approach (Metaphysics of Morals Versus Moral Metaphysics) -- 2. Mou Zongsan's Rejection of Kantian Transcendentalism in the Field of Practical Philosophy -- 3. Further Discussion on the Meaning of the Postulate of Practical Reason -- The Affirmation of an Autonomous Moral Subject in Confucianism -- Chapter Two Appropriating a Pivotal Concept: Intellectual Intuition -- Intellectual Intuition as the Emblematic Concept of a Revisited Chinese Tradition -- Ordinary Knowledge and Moral Knowledge: An Ancient Question in Chinese Thought -- Importance of the Concept of Intellectual Intuition in the History of Western Philosophy and Mou Zongsan's "Deliberate Silence" on the Matter -- Intellectual Intuition as a Principle of "Ontological Creative Actualization" -- Chapter Three Intellectual Intuition and Thing-in-Itself: Preserving the Possibility of a "Transcendent Metaphysics" -- The Meaning of the Concept of Thing-in-Itself in the Philosophy of Mou Zongsan -- 1. Mou Zongsan's Analysis of the Kantian Thing-in-Itself.

2. The Sense of Value Ascribed by Mou Zongsan to Thing-in-Itself -- 3. The Different Dimensions of the Concept of Thing-in-Itself -- The Problematic Transcendental Object X -- 1. Transcendental Object X and Speculative Knowledge: How Mou Zongsan Accepts the Heideggerian Interpretation of Kant's Thought -- 2. Clarification of Kant's Position Regarding Object X, Which Can in No Way Be Grasped Through Intellectual Intuition -- 3. The Divergent Understandings of Transcendental Object X by Mou Zongsan and Heidegger Reveals Fundamental Differences in Their Philosophies -- Chapter Four Rethinking Fundamental Ontology -- Presentation of the Reference to Heidegger in Mou Zongsan's Reflection on Fundamental Ontology -- Ontology, Transcendental Imagination, and Practical Reason: A Critique of Heidegger -- Fundamental Ontology as a "Detached Ontology" -- Fundamental Ontology from a Confucian Perspective -- "Is Ontology Fundamental?" -- Chapter Five Moral Emotions and "Inter-Affectation" -- Criticizing Kant -- Reaffirming the Value of Emotions in "Orthodox Confucianism" andCriticizing Zhu Xi -- Rearticulating the Autonomy and the Unity of the Moral Subject -- From Moral Feeling to "Inter-Affectation" and "Inter-Subjectivity" -- Mou Zongsan's Thought on Inter-Affectation and Contemporary Philosophical Discussions: A Few Preliminary Reflections -- Chapter Six Self-Cultivation -- Mou Zongsan's Understanding of Self-Cultivation Traditions: A Presentation -- 1. Two Main Types of Gongfu -- 2. Purity of a Fully Formed Moral Mind -- 3. Mou Zongsan's Central Gongfu: Retrospective Verification (Nijue Tizheng) -- An Attempt to Describe the Self-Cultivation Process -- 1. The Heart/Mind is Naturally Active -- 2. Retrospective Verification and Self-Consciousness -- 3. Dynamism of the Heart/Mind and the Issue of Integration of Experience.

4. Nijue, Integration Process, Heaviness of Sensibility -- The Problem of Rupture in Moral Life: Sudden Awakening and Sudden/Gradual Paradigm in Mou Zongsan's Thought -- 1. Introducing Some Notions: Awareness (Wu) and Sudden Awakening (Dunwu) -- 2. The Problem with Sagehood/Sainthood -- Concluding Remarks -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index.