Cultivating the Confucian Individual
Title | Cultivating the Confucian Individual PDF eBook |
Author | Canglong Wang |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2023-06-26 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3031276698 |
This book explores the complexities of cultivating ‘Confucian individuals’ through classics study in contemporary China by drawing on the individualization thesis and its implications for the Confucian education revival. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a Confucian classical school, three topics are investigated: parents’ narratives and actions related to ‘dis-embedding’ their children from mainstream state education and transferring them to Confucian education as an alternative; the specific discourses and practices of teaching and learning the classics in everyday school life, guided by the aim of training students to become autonomous learners; and the institutional and subjective dilemmas that arise when parents and students seek to ‘re-embed’ themselves in either the state education system or further Confucian studies at an advanced academy for the next stage of education. The research presented in this book contributes to understanding the hidden dynamics of individualization in the Confucian education revival and the intricacies of subject-making through Confucian teaching and learning in the socialist state of China.
Humanity and Self-cultivation
Title | Humanity and Self-cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | Wei-ming Tu |
Publisher | Cheng & Tsui |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780887273179 |
This first paperback edition of a renowned collection of essays by noted scholar of Chinese history and philosophy Tu Wei-ming includes a new introductory essay by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of
Confucian Moral Self Cultivation
Title | Confucian Moral Self Cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | P. J. Ivanhoe |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780872205086 |
A concise and accessible introduction to the evolution of the concept of moral self-cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition, this volume begins with an explanation of the pre-philosophical development of ideas central to this concept, followed by an examination of the specific treatment of self cultivation in the philosophy of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Xunzi, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, Yan Yuan and Dai Zhen. In addition to providing a survey of the views of some of the most influential Confucian thinkers on an issue of fundamental importance to the tradition, Ivanhoe also relates their concern with moral self-cultivation to a number of topics in the Western ethical tradition. Bibliography and index are included.
Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation
Title | Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation PDF eBook |
Author | Barry C. Keenan |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2011-05-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0824860233 |
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.
The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China
Title | The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China PDF eBook |
Author | Canglong Wang |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2023-07-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000909433 |
This book explores the relationship between Confucianism and citizenship and the rise of Confucian citizens in contemporary China. Combining theoretical and empirical approaches to the topic, the book constructs new frameworks to examine the nuances and complexities of Confucianism and citizenship, exploring the process of citizen-making through Confucian education. By re-evaluating the concept of citizenship as a Western construct and therefore challenging the popular characterization of Confucianism and citizenship as incompatible, this book posits that a new type of citizen, the Confucian citizen, is on the rise in 21st-century China. The book’s clear, accessible style makes it essential reading for students and scholars interested in citizenship, Confucianism and Chinese studies, and those with an interest in religion and philosophy more generally.
Original Confucianism: an Introduction to the Superior Person
Title | Original Confucianism: an Introduction to the Superior Person PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Dietz |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2010-09-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0557595681 |
Confucian philosophy can be seen in its depth, simplicity, profound practicality and relevance to contemporary daily life through the example of the "chun tzu," the superior person. What makes one a superior person? How do superior people practice virtue to deal with change? The personality of the superior person is clearly described in the original "Four Books" of Confucianism. Their self-cultivation, through any situation, is laid out in the Ten Wings commentary on the I Ching, the Book of Changes. Emphasizing virtue, anyone can be a superior person helping to make the world peaceful from the inside out.
Confucianism
Title | Confucianism PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel K. Gardner |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0195398912 |
This volume shows the influence of the Sage's teachings over the course of Chinese history--on state ideology, the civil service examination system, imperial government, the family, and social relations--and the fate of Confucianism in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as China developed alongside a modernizing West and Japan. Some Chinese intellectuals attempted to reform the Confucian tradition to address new needs; others argued for jettisoning it altogether in favor of Western ideas and technology; still others condemned it angrily, arguing that Confucius and his legacy were responsible for China's feudal, ''backward'' conditions in the twentieth century and launching campaigns to eradicate its influences. Yet Chinese continue to turn to the teachings of Confucianism for guidance in their daily lives.