冯契先生是当代中国为数不多的有着自己理论体系的哲学家之一，他没有留下任何遗言，却留下了数百万字的哲学著作，这些丰富的学术遗产，融合了中国传统哲学、西方哲学和马克思主义哲学，是当代中国哲学的瑰宝。

本书是冯契“哲学史两种”（《中国古代哲学的逻辑发展》《中国近代哲学的革命进程》）的简缩本《中国哲学通史简编》的英译本，是一部贯通上古至1949年为止的完整的“中国哲学通史”。全书围绕“天人、名实”之辩、“理气（道器）”之辩、“心物（知行）”之辩等重要命题展现中国哲学的演化脉络。冯契在书中提出了自己关于哲学史的定义：哲学史是“根源于人类社会实践主要围绕着思维和存在关系问题而展开的认识的辩证运动”。本书从广义认识论的角度突显了中国传统哲学的特点：在逻辑学上，中国传统哲学擅长辩证逻辑，而在自然观上，则发展了气一元论，这与西方人发展形式逻辑和原子论颇为不同；在伦理学上，中国传统哲学注重自觉原则，而在美学上则较早提出了言志说和意境理论，这和西方人高扬自愿原则和较早提出模仿说及典型性格理论也是旨趣不同的。本书也对中国近代哲学（1840—1949）做了开拓性的研究，指出中国近代哲学革命在“古今中西”之争的制约下，围绕历史观、认识论、逻辑和方法论问题以及人的自由和理想问题等四个方面展开，既受到西方近现代哲学的影响，又是中国传统哲学的“理气（道器）”之辩、“心物（知行）”之辩、“名实”之辩、“天人”之辩在近代的发展。中国近代哲学在历史观和认识论上取得了标志性的成就，即马克思主义中国化的“能动的革命的反映论”。但在逻辑学和方法论上及人的自由和理想问题上，中国近代哲学未能做出系统总结。本书同时论述了当代中国对于近代哲学革命如何“接着讲”的问题。

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The Methodology for the Study of the History of Philosophy
1.2 Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Philosophy
1.3 The Struggles Between "Past and Present" and Between "China and the West" and the Revolution in Modern Chinese Philosophy
References
Part Ⅰ The Pre-Qin Period(CA.1046-256 BCE)
Chapter 2 The Rise of Confucianism,Mohism,Daoism,and Legalism
2.1 Confucius Doctrine of the Unity of Humanity and Knowledge
2.2 Mozi and the Conflict Between Confucianism and Mohism—The Antagonism Between Empiricism and Apriorism
2.3 The Laozi:"The Movement of Dao Consists in Reversion"—The Presentation of the Dialectical Principle of Negation
2.4 Sunzi Bingfa(Sunzi's Art of War)and the Rise of the Legalists
References
Chapter 3 The High Tide of Contention Among the "Hundred Schools of Thought"
3.1 The Guanzi:The Confluence of Legalism and Doctrines of the Huang-Lao School
3.2 The Conflict Between Confucian and Legalist Schools and Mencius Doctrine of the Goodness of Human Nature
3.3 Zhuangzi:"Where All Things Are Equal, How Can One Be Long and Another Short?"—Relativism Against Dogmatism
3.4 The Logicians Debates on "Hardness and Whiteness" and on "Similarity and Difference"—A Conflict Between Relativism and Absolutism
3.5 Later Mohist Views on the Relationship Between Names and Actualities and on Nature
References
Chapter 4 The Summing Up Stage of Pre-Qin Philosophy
4.1 Xunzi's Summation of the Debates over "Heaven and Humankind" and over "Names and Actualities"—The Union of Naive Materialism and Naive Dialectics
4.2 Han Fei:"Incompatible Things Cannot Coexist"
4.3 The Yi Zhuan:"The Interaction of Yin and Yang Constitutes the Dao"—The Establishment of the Naive Principle of the Unity of Opposites
4.4 The Development of the Doctrine of the Yin Yang and Five Agents—The Application of the Comparative Method of Dialectical Logic to the Sciences
References
Part Ⅰ A Brief Summary
Part Ⅱ From the Qin Han to the Qing Dynasty
Chapter 5 The Supremacy of Confucianism and Criticisms of Confucian
Theology
5.1 Dong Zhongshu and the Huainanzi—The Antagonism Between the Teleological and Mechanistic Doctrines of Huo Shi
5.2 Wang Chong's Materialistic Doctrine of Mo Wei in Opposition to the Doctrine of Huo Shi
References
Chapter 6 Mysterious Learning and the Coexistence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism
6.1 Wang Bi's Doctrine of "Valuing Non-being" and Pei Wei's "On the Importance of Being"
6.2 Ji Kang's Challenge to Fatalism
6.3 The Commentary on the Zhuangzi:"When There Is Being, There Is Non-being"—The Doctrine of "Self-transformation" Against Metaphysical Ontology
6.4 Ge Hong's Daoist Philosophy and Seng Zhao's Buddhism Expounded in Terms of Mysterious Learning
6.5 Fan Zhen's Summing Up of the Debate over Body and Soul—The Application of the Materialist Principle of the Unity of Substance and Function
References
Chapter 7 A Tendency Towards the Confluence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism
7.1 The Buddhist Tiantai School's Doctrines:"The Three Levels of Truth Are in Perfect Harmony with One Another" and "Even Inanimate Things Possess the Buddha Nature"
7.2 The Buddhist Dharma Character School's Doctrine："Everything Is Consciousness Only" and the Buddhist Huayan School's Doctrine:The Universal Causation of the Realm of Dharmas—The Antithesis between Idealistic Empiricism and Rationalism
7.3 The Buddhist Zen(Chan) School—The Completion of Confucianized Buddhism
7.4 Li Quan's Religious Daoism with a Voluntarist Orientation
7.5 Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi:"Heaven and Human Beings Do Not Interfere with Each Other" and "Heaven and Human Beings Are Evenly Matched":A Materialist Summary of the Debate Concerning "Effort and Fate"
References
Chapter 8 The Prevalence of Neo-Confucianism and the Criticisms
of Neo-Confucianism
8.1 Zhou Dunyi,Shao Yong,and the Cheng Brothers：Founders of Orthodox Neo-Confucianism
8.2 Zhang Zai's Summing Up of the Debate over "Being and Non-being(Movement and Tranquility)"—An Exposition of the Principle of the Unity of Opposites in Terms of Qi Monism
8.3 Zhu Xi's System of Principle Monism
8.4 The "Jing Gong New Learning" and the "Utilitarian Learning" as Opposed to the Chengs and Zhu Xi's Doctrine of Principle
8.5 Wang Shouren's System of Mind Monism
8.6 Li Zhi's "Heretical" Thoughts
References
Chapter 9 The Summing Up Stage of Ancient Chinese Philosophy
9.1 Wang Fuzhi's Summary of the Debate over "Principle and Vital Force(The Dao and Concrete Things)" and "Mind and Matter/Things(Knowledge and Action)"—A System of Qi Monism Unifying Naive Materialism and Naive Dialectics
9.2 The Enlightenment Thought and Historicist Methodology of Huang Zongxi
9.3 Gu Yanwu's "Practical Learning of Cultivating Oneself and Governing Others"
9.4 Yan Yuan's Discussion of "Practice" and Dai Zhen's Discussion of "Knowledge"
References
Part Ⅱ A Brief Summary
Part Ⅲ Modern Period
Chapter 10 The Forerunners of Modern Chinese Philosophy
10.1 Gong Zizhen:"The Dominator of the Masses Is Called the ‘Self'"—The Beginning of Modern Humanism
10.2 Wei Yuan:"Basing My Ideas on Things" and "Knowing Something after Being Involved in Something"—The Beginning of the Debate over the Relation Between Mind and Matter/Things(Knowledge and Action) in Modern Times
References
Chapter 11 The Stage of Evolutionism in the Philosophical Revolution
11.1 Kang Youwei:An Advocate of Historical Evolutionism
11.2 Tan Sitong:The "Study of Humanity" Aimed at Breaking the Chains of Bondage
11.3 Yan Fu's "Doctrine of Natural Evolution" and Empiricism
11.4 Liang Qichao on the Freedom of the "Self" and the Evolution of the "Group"
11.5 Zhang Taiyan:"Competition Produces Intelligence and Revolution Develops People's Knowledge"—A Rudimentary Version of the Viewpoint of Social Practice
11.6 Wang Guowei:The Believability Versus the Lovability of Philosophical Theories
11.7 Sun Yat Sen's Evolutionism and His Doctrine of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action
References
Chapter 12 The Philosophical Revolution Enters the Stage of Materialist Dialectics
12.1 Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu:From Evolutionism to Historical Materialism
12.2 Hu Shi's "Experimentalism" and Liang Shuming's Intuitionism
12.3 The Debate over Science Versus Metaphysics and Qu Qiubai's Historical Determinism
12.4 Lu Xun on National Characteristics and His Aesthetic Ideas
References
Chapter 13 The Sinicization of Marxism and the Contributions Made by Professional Philosophers
13.1 Li Da and Ai Siqi:First Attempts to Sinicize Marxist Philosophy
13.2 Xiong Shili:New Doctrine of Consciousness Only
13.3 Zhu Guangqian:An Aesthetic Theory of Expression
13.4 Jin Yuelin:"Applying What Is Attained from Experience to Experience—Realism Based Unity of Perceptual and Rational Knowledge,and of Facts and Principles"
13.5 Feng Youlan:"The New Rational Philosophy"
13.6 Marxists Critical Investigations on Traditional Thought
13.7 Mao Zedong：The Dynamic and Revolutionary Theory of Knowledge as the Reflection of Reality—A Summation of the Debate over the Relation Between "Mind and Matter/Things" in the Philosophy of History and Epistemology
References
Part Ⅲ A Brief Summary
Postscript
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Index