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Description: Uniquely blending scholarship with a highly original approach, this new introduction to Confucianism is an informative and intriguing guide to China’s ancient philosophical tradition.
Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century China, the book follows a Confucian couple, together with their family, friends and staff, through a typical day. The result offers a fascinating insight, not only into the intellectual and scholarly aspects of Confucianism, but also into the nature of belief, culture and society in a living philosophical tradition. The key topics covered include
• the intellectual and social role of women
• Confucianism, art and poetry
• the relationship with the Western world and Western faiths
Capturing the full scope of an ancient tradition, this innovative, well-researched and
accessible text will be appreciated by anyone interested in Confucianism - scholars, students and general readers alike.
Contents: Introductory reflections • Introducing Confucian lives • A Confucian world • International and cross-cultural Confucianism • A living tradition • Cultural concerns • Confucianism as a way of life • The cultivation of the self • •Beginning with becoming a person: self-cultivation • Quiet -sitting • Back to the world • Educating the person • The importance of education • Texts and commentaries • Education as cultivation • Preparing for the examination • Teachers of the inner quarters • Transmitting the Dao • The classical world • The orderly Han • Buddhist interruptions • Song revivals • Continuing in the Ming and Quing • Examining evil and governing the quotidian • The evil • The mundane • Technology and forgery • The material world • Meeting a Western Scholar • Controversy over the rites • Furnishing the study and hosting a reading • Stones and rocks • A poetry gathering • Into the global and modern world • Internationalization of Confucianism • Korea • Japan • Into the modern world • The inner sagea and outer king • Two beginnings in Qufu • Dynastic and intellectual chronologies • Glossary • Bibliography • IndexISBN - 9781851682362
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Pages : 224
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