Individual Autonomy and Responsibility in Late Imperial China
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Table of Contents

Prologue

vii

Introduction

ix

Part I: Tension Toward Personal Autonomy in the Confucian Tradition

1

Chapter 1: Two Cases of Heroism and Intolerance

13

Chapter 2: Some Terms of the Question

27

Chapter 3: Impermanent Unity and Fragility of Individual Boundaries

39

Chapter 4: Human Dignity

61

Chapter 5: Past and Recent Debates

77

Chapter 6: New and Old Elements on the Centrality of Self

95

Chapter 7: Further Developments

139

Part II: The Sense of Responsibility in Ming and Qing Confucianism

167

Chapter 8: Questions on Moral Responsibility

169

Chapter 9: Heaven, Destiny, Mind, and Will

193

Chapter 10: Preliminary Conclusions

267

Bibliography

283

Index

351

About the Author

359

Cambria Sinophone World Series

361