Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivaton

Klappentext 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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• Authors: Barry C Keenan, Barry C. Keenan
• Assisted by: Henry Rosemont (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780824834968
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3496-8
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality; Dimensions of Asian Spirituali; Dimensions of Asian Spirituali
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous