Keenan, Barry C. 1940- creator author. text globe bibliography Electronic books. History. hiu Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press ©2011 2011 monographic eng 1 online resource (xxxii, 132 pages) : illustrations. 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. 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. Barry C. Keenan. Includes bibliographical references and index. Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In English. a-cc--- Confucian education China History Confucian ethics China History Neo-Confucianism China History PHILOSOPHY Eastern RELIGION Confucianism Confucian education Confucian ethics Neo-Confucianism China B127.N4 K44 2011 181/.112 181.112 Keenan, Barry C., 1940- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011 xxxii, 132 pages 9780824860233 0824860233 0824834968 9780824834968 9780824868499 0824868498 22573/ctt62nn1m JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750558 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=750558 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750558 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=750558 Use copy MiAaHDL Nz 110121 20200709060113.0 ocn794925357 eng