Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation

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ID20005752
AuthorsBarry C Keenan, Barry Keenan (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages132
Publication date2011-05-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNeo-Confucian self-cultivation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.21313/hawaii/9780824834968.001.0001
OpenAlexW2346232239
ISBN9780824834968
Open LibraryOL24884969M
LanguageEN
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Approximately fifteen hundred years after Confucius, his ideas reasserted themselves in the formulation of a sophisticated program of personal self-cultivation. Neo-Confucians argued that humans are endowed with empathy and goodness at birth, an assumption now confirmed by evolutionary biologists. By following the Great Learning--eight steps in the process of personal development--Neo-Confucians showed how this innate endowment could provide the foundation for living morally. Neo-Confucian students did not follow a single manual elaborating each step of the Great Learning; instead they were exposed to age-appropriate texts, commentaries, and anthologies of Neo-Confucian thinkers, which gradually made clear the sequential process of personal development and its connection to social order. Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation opens up in accessible prose the content of the eight-step process for today's reader as it examines the source of mainstream Neo-Confucian self-cultivation and its major crosscurrents from 1000 to 1900

Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · china · Confucian education · Confucian ethics · Education · Neo-Confucianism

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