Keenan, Barry C.,  1940- <br/><br/>
Neo-Confucian self-cultivation / 
Barry C. Keenan. 
 - Honolulu :  University of Hawaiʻi Press,  ©2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xxxii, 132 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Dimensions of Asian Spirituality .
 - Dimensions of Asian spirituality. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[Place of publication not identified] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2011. 
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<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780824860233 0824860233 0824834968 9780824834968 9780824868499 0824868498 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40019446881 10.21313/9780824860233  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt62nn1m  JSTOR 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Confucian education--History.--China<br/>Confucian ethics--History.--China<br/>Neo-Confucianism--History.--China<br/>PHILOSOPHY--Eastern.<br/>RELIGION--Confucianism.<br/>Confucian education.<br/>Confucian ethics.<br/>Neo-Confucianism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B127.N4  / K44 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>181/.112