Table of Contents
Prelude: Life as Story and Storytelling;pp. 1-11
I. Storytelling;pp. 13-58
a. Where from Storytelling
b. The Christian Scandal of Historical Particularity
c. Storytelling as Telling Where a Story is Born
d. How Storytelling
e. Story as Oral, as Told
f. Why Storytelling Works Wonders
g. Meta-Storytelling
II. History;pp. 59-86
a. Translation, Transposition, Storytelling
b. Our Forefathers
c. History of Ideas and Storytelling
d History the Human Drama of Reenactment
e History of Politics
f. History and the I Ching Make No Mistakes
g. History, Numbers/Mathematics, Cultures
III. Science;pp. 87-111
a. How to Manage Things Happening Without Rhyme or Reason
b. Emotion Psychology as a Science
c. Every Event has Three Stories
d. Existence as Threefold Meaning
e. Agriculture in Technology in Japan
f. On Idleness
g. Science and Myth making
IV. Inter-culture, Relativism;pp. 113-174
a. Concrete Creativity as Realizing, Storytelling as Cosmos-“Systematic”
b. The Spirit of Systems and The Systematic Spirit
c. Contra Ricoeur
d. Circles, Cultures, Stories
f. Relativism and Storytelling
g. Relativism as Storytelling
h. China Written in English—Threefold Impact Toward Inter-culture
i. Storytelling in China and in the West
V. Milieu;pp. 175-191
a. Dawn, Kids, Story
b. Kids’ Logic, Our Logic, Storytelling Logic
c. Time-Thinking, Space-Thinking
d. Storytelling Rhymes with the Situation, our Milieu
e. Kids, Dawn, Milieu
f. Self-ed and Self-less Milieus
VI. Pain;pp. 193-231
a. Frame-Breaking
b. Struggles in Real Life
c. Pain and Evil
d. What Goodness/Rightness Means
e. Pleasure-Pain Involvement
f. A Fig Tree, Job, and Chuang Tzu: To Suffer and to Enjoy
g. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
h. The Bible as Stories of Loving the Enemy
i. Contra Capital Punishment
j. Glorious “Futile” Charity Boulders
k. Ethics that is Global, Pluralistic, and Ecological
l. Pain, Buddhism, Christianity
VII. Akrasia, Interpersonal and Personal;pp. 233-266
a. Violence as Weakness—In China and Beyond
b. Devotion and Fanaticism
c. Two Stories of Akrasia
d. On Suffering Pain Creatively
VIII. Selflessness, Silence;pp. 267-290
a. Self-Less Storytelling
b. The Story of “Nothing”
c. Double Negatives, Double Affirmatives, Storytelling
d. Telling Without Telling, Hearing Without Hearing—Silence at Work
IX. From Oneself to the Music Together;pp. 291-349
a. My Body, My Self
b. The Importance of Being Oneself
c. My Autobiography “My Philosophy”
d. Autobiography in General—Storytelling of the Self
e. Heresy and Democracy
f. How to Read Stories
g. Beauty Supreme
h. Universals the Music of Things
i. Music, Poetry, System
j. Silence as Music
Conclusion: 351-444
a. Music and Storytelling
b. Coda: China Hermeneutics
c. Sleep, the Tao of Self-ing
d. Chinese Philosophy and Story-Thinking
e. Outside Looking-In: a Review of Starr’s Understanding China
f. Dr. Wu’s Inter-Subjective Psychology (Ruth Chao), Wu’s Response
g. Rorty, China, and World Relativism
h. Various Ponds Alive
i. “Chinese Body Thinking”: World Interculture of Dr. Kuang-ming Wu by Zhang Zailin
j. Taiwan the Gem of the World
Index