TY  - GEN
T1  - Neo-Confucian self-cultivation
T2  - Dimensions of Asian spirituality.
A1  - Keenan, Barry C., 1940-
LA  - English
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaiʻi Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn794925357
AB  - 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.
OP  - 132
CN  - B127.N4 K44 2011
SN  - 9780824860233
SN  - 0824860233
SN  - 0824834968
SN  - 9780824834968
SN  - 9780824868499
SN  - 0824868498
SN  - 9780824835484
SN  - 0824835484
KW  - Confucian education : China : History.
KW  - Confucian ethics : China : History.
KW  - Neo-Confucianism : China : History.
KW  - Confucianisme : Étude et enseignement : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Morale confucéenne : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Néo-confucianisme : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Eastern.
KW  - RELIGION : Confucianism.
KW  - Confucian education
KW  - Confucian ethics
KW  - Neo-Confucianism
KW  - China
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -