Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation /

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

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. B...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Keenan, Barry C.,
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Rosemont, Henry,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Dimensions of Asian Spirituality ; 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of 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

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