Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation Hardback
by Barry C. Keenan
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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.
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- Pages:6 illustrations
- Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2011
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- ISBN:9780824834968
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:6 illustrations
- Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2011
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- ISBN:9780824834968
