Neo Confucianism In History

Author : Peter K. Bol
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174805
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Confucianism in History written by Peter K. Bol and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where does Neo-Confucianism—a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it—fit into our story of China’s history? This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of the middle period in China’s history. The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible."

Author : Peter Kees Bol
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-confucianism in History written by Peter Kees Bol and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does Neo-Confucianismâe"a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to itâe"fit into our story of Chinaâe(tm)s history? This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of the middle period in Chinaâe(tm)s history. The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible.

Author : Stephen C. Angle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509518614
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Confucianism written by Stephen C. Angle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Confucianism is a philosophically sophisticated tradition weaving classical Confucianism together with themes from Buddhism and Daoism. It began in China around the eleventh century CE, played a leading role in East Asian cultures over the last millennium, and has had a profound influence on modern Chinese society. Based on the latest scholarship but presented in accessible language, Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction is organized around themes that are central in Neo-Confucian philosophy, including the structure of the cosmos, human nature, ways of knowing, personal cultivation, and approaches to governance. The authors thus accomplish two things at once: they present the Neo-Confucians in their own, distinctive terms; and they enable contemporary readers to grasp what is at stake in the great Neo-Confucian debates. This novel structure gives both students and scholars in philosophy, religion, history, and cultural studies a new window into one of the world's most important philosophical traditions.

Author : Stephen C. Angle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195385144
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sagehood written by Stephen C. Angle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angle's book is both an exposition of Neo-Confucian philosophy and a sustained dialogue with many leading Western thinkers, especially with those philosophers leading the current renewal of interest in virtue ethics. He argues for a new stage in the development of contemporary Confucian philosophy.

Author : Wm. Theodore de Bary
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520318676
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Confucian Education written by Wm. Theodore de Bary and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : John Makeham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048129303
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy written by John Makeham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Confucianism was the major philosophical tradition in China for most of the past millennium. This Companion is the first volume to provide a comprehensive introduction, in accessible English, to the Neo-Confucian philosophical thought of representative Chinese thinkers from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries. It provides detailed insights into changing perspectives on key philosophical concepts and their relationship with one another.

Author : Wm. Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231052294
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart written by Wm. Theodore De Bary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major addition to our understanding of the development of Neo-Confucianism--its complexity, diversity, richness, and depth as a major component of the moral and spiritual fiber of the peoples of East Asia.

Author : Kwong-Loi Shun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796576
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucian Ethics written by Kwong-Loi Shun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the Confucian and Western view of the self.

Author : Alan T. Wood
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824817039
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limits to Autocracy written by Alan T. Wood and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan T. Wood examines the cultural identity of modern China in the context of authoritarianism in the Chinese political tradition. Taking on issues of key importance in the understanding of Chinese history, Wood leads readers to a reconsideration of neo-Confucian thinkers of the Northern Sung dynasty. Modern scholars have accused Sung neo-Confucians of advocating a doctrine of unconditional obedience to the ruler--of "revering the emperor and expelling the barbarian"--and thereby inhibiting the rise of democracy in China. Wood refutes this dominant view by arguing that Sung neo-Confucians intended to limit the power of the emperor, not enhance it. Sung political thinkers believed passionately in the existence of a moral cosmos governed by universal laws that transcended the ruler and could be invoked to set limits on his power. Wood makes a striking comparison of this view with a similar one of universal morality or natural law that developed in late Medieval Europe. By drawing attention to a much-neglected Confucian text, he contributes significantly to the wider dialog of human rights in China and brings forth fresh philosophical insights in his comparative view of Chinese and Western history.

Author : 馮友蘭
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684836343
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Chinese Philosophy written by 馮友蘭 and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1948 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A systematic account of Chinese thought from its origins to the present day"--Cover.