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Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation / Barry C. Keenan; ed. by Henry Rosemont.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality ; 19Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 6 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824834968
  • 9780824860233
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 100
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Dynastic Periods in Chinese History -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Neo-Confucianism, 1000-1400 -- CHAPTER 1. Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism -- CHAPTER 2. Neo-Confucian Education -- Part II. The Great Learning and the Eight Steps to Personal Cultivation -- CHAPTER 3. The First Five Steps of Personal Cultivation -- CHAPTER 4. The Three Steps of Social Development -- Part III. Self-Cultivation Upgrades: The Fifteenth Century through the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER 5. Reforms in Neo-Confucianism: The Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries -- CHAPTER 6. The Nineteenth-Century Synthesis in Confucian Learning -- Legacies -- Appendix: Chronology of Works and Thinkers with the Sequence for Reading the Four Books Indicated -- Notes -- Further Readings -- Index -- About the Author
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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Dynastic Periods in Chinese History -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Neo-Confucianism, 1000-1400 -- CHAPTER 1. Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism -- CHAPTER 2. Neo-Confucian Education -- Part II. The Great Learning and the Eight Steps to Personal Cultivation -- CHAPTER 3. The First Five Steps of Personal Cultivation -- CHAPTER 4. The Three Steps of Social Development -- Part III. Self-Cultivation Upgrades: The Fifteenth Century through the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER 5. Reforms in Neo-Confucianism: The Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries -- CHAPTER 6. The Nineteenth-Century Synthesis in Confucian Learning -- Legacies -- Appendix: Chronology of Works and Thinkers with the Sequence for Reading the Four Books Indicated -- Notes -- Further Readings -- Index -- About the Author

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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