Neo-Confucian self-cultivation /
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. B...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press
©2011.
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| Series: | Dimensions of Asian spirituality.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqj2p |
Table of Contents:
- Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism
- Neo-Confucian education
- The first five steps of personal cultivation
- The three steps of social development
- Reforms in Neo-Confucianism : the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries
- The nineteenth-century synthesis in Confucian learning.