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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keenan, Barry C., author.

Contributor:

Rosemont, Henry, editor.

Series:

Dimensions of Asian spirituality.

Dimensions of Asian Spirituality ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucian education--China--History.

Confucian education.

Confucian ethics--China--History.

Confucian ethics.

Neo-Confucianism--China--History.

Neo-Confucianism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824868499

0824868498

9780824860233

0824860233

OCLC:

878149661