本书对中国先秦时期儒、道、法、墨、名、兵、阴阳、农等各家的哲学思想,结合其时代背景进行了阐释和分析,并以批评的眼光考察了各家理论建构的得失及其社会历史作用。本书还对“中国哲学”的范畴及其中国传统思维与近代科学的关系提出了自己的论点。
Introduction
Chapter One: Confucius and the Confucian School
Chapter Two: Mo Zi and the Mohist School
Chapter Three: The Mohist School and the Traditional Mode of Thinking
Chapter Four: The Hundred Schools (1)
Chapter Five: The Hundred Schools (2)
Chapter Six: Xun Zi
Chapter Seven: The Taoist School
Chapter Eight: The Legalists
Epilogue: The Traditional Mode of Thinking and Its Modernization