RITUAL AND DEFERENCE -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Confucian Program -- METAPHYSICS -- PHILOSOPHICAL COSMOLOGY -- HUMAN NATURE -- SOCIAL THEORY -- 2. The Significance of Confucian Values -- VALUES FOR THE GOOD LIFE:CONVENTIONAL, YET NORMATIVE -- A CONFUCIAN SOLUTION: RITUAL -- HIGH CIVILIZATIONS:COMPETING VALUES AND GLOBAL RITUALS -- A HOMILY ON HUMANENESS -- 3. Ritual in Xunzi -- INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS OF RITUAL IN XUNZI -- RITUAL AND SEMIOTICS -- RITUAL AND DESIRE -- RITUAL, INTEGRATION, AND RELIGION -- 4. Daoist Relativism, Ethical Choice, and Normative Measure -- A METAPHYSICAL DAOISM -- NORMATIVE MEASURE -- DAOIST ETHICS -- DAOISM AND CONFUCIANISM COMPARED -- 5. Chinese Influences in English-Speaking Philosophy -- SCHOLARLY INFLUENCES -- ROGER T. AMES AND DAVID L. HALL -- TU WEIMING AND CHENG CHUNGYING -- WU KUANGMING -- 6. Methodology, Practices, and Disciplines in Chinese and Western Philosophy -- THE PROBLEM -- METHODOLOGY AS A CONCERN -- PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICES -- PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE -- 7. Metaphysics for Contemporary Chinese Philosophy -- THE NEED FOR METAPHYSICS -- THEMES OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHYThe Chinese philosophical traditions share and differently punctuate -- METAPHYSICAL DIRECTIONS -- 8. The Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual and Humanity -- THE UNCONSCIOUS AS A PROBLEM FOR CONFUCIAN VIRTUE -- RITUAL AND HUMANENESS -- DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART: FREUD -- DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART: MARX -- 9. The Contemporary Mutual Development of Confucianism and Christianity -- FROM REFORMATION OF THE INNER HEART TO LOVING THE WORLD -- THE LOCATION OF ETHICAL ANALYSIS AND RECTIFYING POWER -- PEACE, ACTION, AND RETREAT -- 10. The Personal and the Impersonal in Conceptions of Divinity -- POPULAR VERSUS SOPHISTICATED RELIGION HYPOTHESIS -- DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS:PRE-AXIAL AGE AND AXIAL AGE -- SEMIOTIC HYPOTHESIS.

ONTOLOGICAL-ANTHROPOLOGICALCONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS -- 11. On Comparison -- MODELS OF COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY -- OBJECTIVIST COMPARISON -- NORMATIVE COMPARISON -- BEYOND COMPARATIVE TO INTEGRATIVE PHILOSOPHY -- 12. Contributions of Chinese Philosophy: A Summary Discussion -- THE HAPPY PORTABILITY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY -- RITUAL, AGAIN -- ETHICS, AGAIN -- ORIENTATION AND THE SELF -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.