TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keenan,Barry C.
TI  - Neo-Confucian self-cultivation
T2  - Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
SN  - 9780824860233
AV  - B127.N4 K44 2011
U1  - 181/.112 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaiʻi Press
KW  - Confucian education
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Confucian ethics
KW  - Neo-Confucianism
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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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