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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Main Author: Keenan, Barry C. (Author)
Other Authors: Rosemont, Henry (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2011]
Series:Dimensions of Asian Spirituality 19
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages) 6 illus
ISBN:9780824860233
DOI:10.1515/9780824860233