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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.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Keenan, Barry C., 1940-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Neo-Confucian self-cultivation [by Keenan, B.C.]

Related Series:

Dimensions of Asian spirituality

Subjects:

Neo-Confucianism — China — History

Confucian ethics — China — History

Confucian education — China — History

Neo-Confucianism

Confucian ethics

Confucian education

China

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

B127.N4 K44 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780824860233 (electronic bk.)
0824860233 (electronic bk.)
9780824834968 [Invalid]
0824834968 [Invalid]
9780824835484 [Invalid]
0824835484 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1053380273

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3413635 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp10382247