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Neo-Confucian self-cultivation / Barry C. Keenan.

By: Series: Dimensions of Asian spiritualityPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 132 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824860233
  • 0824860233
  • 0824834968
  • 9780824834968
  • 9780824868499
  • 0824868498
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Neo-Confucian self-cultivation.DDC classification:
  • 181/.112 22
LOC classification:
  • B127.N4 K44 2011
Other classification:
  • 181.112
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Contents:
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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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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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