chinesephil

Chinese Philosophy

Universal love is the cause of the great benefits in the world,
and selfishness the cause of its great calamities...
When we try to benefit the world with this love as our standard,
then attentive ears and keen eyes will respond in service to one another,
limbs will be strengthened to work for one another,
and those who have found this good way will untiringly instruct others...
When he finds his friend hungry he would feed him, and when he finds him cold
he would clothe him, and when he finds him dead he would bury him...
Even a fool would place his trust in such a man above the selfish.
Mo Tzu

Primary Sources:
Confucius and Confucianism (551-479)
Mo Tzu and the early Mohist School (479-381)
Mencius and His School of Confucianism (372?-289?)
Yang Chu and the rise of the Taoist school (369?-286?)
Lao Tzu and his school of Taoism (369?-286?)
Hui Shih, Kung-sun Lung and the Other Dialecticians (369?-286?)
Chuang Tzu and his school of Taoism (369?-286?)
Hsun Tzu and his school of Confucianism (298-238)
Han Fei Tzu and the Other Legalists (d.233)
The Confucians of the Chin Dynasty (255-207)
The Confucians of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - A.D. 220)
The Book of Changes I Ching The Cosmology of the Huai-nan-tzu of Prince of Huainan (d.122)

Tung Chung-Shu and the New Text School
Prognostication Texts, Apocrypha and Numerology during the Han Dynasty
The Old Text School and Yang Hsiung and Wang Chung
Neo-Taoism during the Period of Disunity
Buddhism and its Critics during the Period of Disunity
Buddhism during the Sui and Tang Dynasties
The Rise of Neo-Confucianism and its Borrowings from Buddhism and Taoism
Chou Tun-Yi and Shao Yung
Chang Tsai and the Cheng Brothers
Chu Hsi
Lu Chiu-Yuan, Wang Shou-Jen, and Ming Idealism
The Ching Continuation of Neo-Confucianism
The New Text School of the Ching Dynasty