TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keenan,Barry C.
AU  - Rosemont,Henry
TI  - Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation
T2  - Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
SN  - 9780824834968
U1  - 100 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / Confucianism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860233
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824860233
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824860233/original
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