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Inhalt: Foreword / by Tu Weiming -- Preface -- 1. The Short Happy Life of Boston Confucianism: 1.1. Portable Confucianism: Roots and Branches -- 1.2. Ritual Propriety -- 1.3. Pragmatism -- 1.4. Confucian Critique for Boston -- 1.5. Bostonian Modifications of Confucianism. 2. Confucianism on Culture: 2.1. Philosophy of Culture -- 2.2. An Elementary Theory of Culture and Nature in Xunzi -- 2.3. Chinese Orientations to Culture: Confucian, Daoist, Legalist, Moist, and Buddhist -- 2.4. Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi Compared -- 2.5. Confucian Contributions to a Contemporary Philosophy of Culture. 3. Confucianism in the Contemporary Situation: 3.1. Historical Background -- 3.2. Interpretive, Bridging, and Normative Philosophers -- 3.3. Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall -- 3.4. Cheng Chungying -- 3.5. Wu Kuangming. 4. Confucian Spirituality: 4.1. Philosophy and Religion -- 4.2. Spirituality and Ultimate Reality: Defining Hypotheses -- 4.3. Self, Truth, and Transformation -- 4.4. Confucian Spirituality in a Scientific Society -- 4.5. Confucian Spirituality in a Global Moral Democracy and Ecology. 5. Tu Weimings Confucianism: 5.1. Conversation and Existential Choice: Way of the Sage -- 5.2. The Question of Conversion -- 5.3. The Question of Ritual -- 5.4. The Question of Love (Ren) -- 5.5. The Question of Evil. 6. Motif Analysis East and West: 6.1. Motif Analysis -- 6.2. Comparison -- 6.3. Ancient Cultural Motifs and Their Development -- 6.4. Relations of Motifs to Deeper Imaginative Artifacts -- 6.5. Motifs and Their Sequelae. 7. Motifs of Being: 7.1. The Trouble with Being -- 7.2. Philosophy as Engagement -- 7.3. Western Motifs for Being -- 7.4. The Dialectic of Being -- 7.5. South and East Asian Motifs for Being. 8. Motifs of Transcendence: 8.1. Transcendence as a Category -- 8.2. Transcendence in Ancient Confucianism -- 8.3. Transcendence in Neo-Confucianism -- 8.4. God and the Imago Dei -- 8.5. John Wesley and the Image of God.

Inhalt: 9. Resources for a Conception of Selfhood: 9.1. Problems with the Self -- 9.2. The Self as Contradictory and Self-Deceived in Western Thought -- 9.3. The Self in Confucian Thought -- 9.4. Self-Deception in Confucian Thought -- 9.5. The Self as Orientation and Poise. 10. Confucianism, Christianity, and Multiple Religious Identity: 10.1. Engaging Problematic Cases -- 10.2. Filial Piety as Holy Duty -- 10.3. Ritual Propriety -- 10.4. Jesus as Model -- 10.5. Multiple Religious Identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.