Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-308).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- MAPS OF THE KINGDOM OF TONGA -- PICTURES OF FRAGRANT GARLANDS, COSTUMES AND PLANTS -- PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ARTS -- ROYAL KAVA CEREMONY -- CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. A Brief Background -- Dialektike, Elengkhos, and Definition -- Metaphorical and Aesthetic Fatongia -- 1.2. Two Propositions and Conclusion -- Proposition One -- Proposition Two -- Conclusion as the Main Argument -- 1.3. Etymology of Fatongia -- Taliai’s Etymology -- Etymology of Ngafa -- Other Related Theoretical Conceptions -- 11.4. Four Research Questions -- Research Question 1 -- Research Question 2 -- Research Question 3 -- Research Question 4 -- 1.5. Focus of Individual Chapters -- Chapter II -- Chapter III -- Chapter IV -- Chapter V -- Chapter VI -- CCHAPTER II: IMPORTANCE OF FFATONGIA -- 22.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Reasons for Selecting Fatongia -- Research Interest in Tonga -- Research Interest Overseas -- 22.3. Futa Helu on Fatongia -- Helu’s Theory -- The Question of “What is Good” -- “Talanoa Harmoniously Yet Critically” -- 2.4. Summary -- CCHAPTER III: PERFORMANCE ART, FFAIVA -- 33.1. Introduction -- Fiefia in Performance Art, Faiva -- 33.2. Performance Art and Arts at large -- Mata (Face) and Nima (Hand) -- Definition of Faiva -- Malie with Fiefia in Hopono’s Study -- 3.3. Kakala in Laumatanga and Laukakala -- Lakalaka of Laumatanga and Laukakala -- Takafalu -- Classification of Kakala -- Kakala in Modern View by Thaman -- 3.4. Home-ground, Fonua, for ‘Alaha Kakala -- 3.5. Summary -- CHAPTER IV: KAVA CCEREMONY AND HA’A LO’AU -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Kava as a Plant -- Kava in Body and Mind -- Laulau ‘o Kava’onau… -- 4.3. Ha‘a Lo‘au: The Tufunga Fonua -- Ha‘a Lo’au in Blood Relationship -- Fonua in Prehistory -- 4.4. Tala Hau, Tala ‘Alofi, and Tala Fatongia -- Seating Arrangement and Fatongia -- Kava Variation in Ancient and Modern Tonga -- 44.5. Summary -- CHAPTER V: GREECE AND ROME -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. From Socrates to Aristotle -- Socrates in Apology and Crito -- The Republic of Plato -- The Politics of Aristotle -- 5.3. The Hellenistic Age -- Skepticism -- Cynicism -- Stoicism -- Epicureanism -- 5.4. Summary -- CHAPTER VI: CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

"As reflected previously, this work is a modified book version of my PhD thesis, which I completed in 2011 at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) of Canberra Campus ... This book
discusses some logical premises or propositions of two themes and their
conclusions regarding the traditional Moanan-Tongan concept offatongia, obligation, and its relation to ancient Greco-Roman deontic, obligation. Accordingly, the premise of the first theme considers fatongia as a worldview, philosophia, or weltanschauung, which is embedded in fundamental human values and behaviors such as right or justice,dykaisyn (totonu), and democracy, demoskratos or pule‘aetokolahi. The premise of the second theme considers fatongia with its specific aim,siate, of happiness, fiefia, as embedded in fundamental human values and behaviors. The logical conclusion of these two themes, with their premises, asserts that fatongia as a worldview with its siate of fiefia is implanted in fundamental human values and behaviors"--Preface.