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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Neo-Confucianism"”.
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On the Changes and Influences of the Absolute Truth of Neo-Confucianism in Pre-Modern China
… changes and influences of the absolute truth of Neo-Confucianism in pre-modern China. First of all, Li of Neo-Confucianism attempted to replace the highest divine of Tian/Shangdi but actually became the amalgamation with the divine and the absolute truth. Through the resistance against Li by …
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A vehicle of social mobility: utilitarian factors in the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the early Tokugawa period
… explores the utilitarian aspects of the Neo-Confucianism’s rise in the early Tokugawa period. Neo-Confucianism was an important intellectual foundation for political leaders because it served as the cultural medium of Chinese civilization. Since the Kamakura period, Zen monks had …
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Jokes on the Four Books: Cultural criticism in early modern China
… the Four Books, which were the core-texts of Neo-Confucianism and civil service examinations. The purpose of this study is to examine the late Ming jestbook, Ssu-shu hsiao, and analyze its cultural value, sociopolitical implications, and psychological concepts. This dissertation is divided …
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On the Margins of the Grand Unity: Empire, Violence, and Ethnicity in the Virtue Ethics and Political Practice of Wang Yangming (1472--1529)
… of the relationship between Wang Yangming's Neo-Confucian philosophy---his learning of the mind-heart---and his political career (practice) have generally been framed in the larger context of a reading of Neo-Confucianism as a whole. Condemnatory interpretations of Neo-Confucian philosophy …
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The Heart Has Its Own Order: The Phenomenology of Value and Feeling in Confucian Philosophy
… into value and feeling in classical and "neo-" Confucianism, particularly in the works of Mencius and Wang Yangming, in light of the German phenomenologist Max Scheler's clarification of human experience and theory of value. The phenomenological method and attitude, which seek essence by …
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The political philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi: A close reading of the philosophical foundations of cooperative communitarianism
… critically built on liberalism, Marxism and Confucianism to realise a regional political community. Some of Miki’s Western readers have wrongly considered him a fascist ideologue, while he has been considered a humanist Marxist in Japan. A closer reading cannot support either view. The thesis …
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Chinese Scholar Garden Detail with Grace of Rainwater
… of rain. The ideology of rain as one aspect of Neo-Confucianism "Views of Nature of China" developed by Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) (1130-1200) has continued to influence Chinese philosophy. Research included critical readings of the garden literature, 12th century Chinese philosophy, and garden poems and …
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Systém otroctva v tradičnej Kórei
Anotácia: Hlavným cieľom tejto diplomovej práce je podať ucelený obraz o vývoji inštitúcie otroctva v Kórei. Otroctvo bolo súčasťou kórejskej spoločnosti od jej najstarších čias o čom svedčí aj písomný záznam Ôsmych článkov zákonov mýtického kráľa Kidžu, v ktorých sa prvýkrát objavuje zmienka o …
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To the Effort Itself: A Phenomenological Study of Wang Yangming's 王陽明 Theory of Moral Effort
<p>In this dissertation, I phenomenologically clarify the theory on moral effort (<em>gongfu</em> 功夫) of the sixteenth-century Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming (or Wang Shouren 王陽明/王守仁 1472-1529). For Wang, the final purpose of moral effort is to cultivate one’s heart (<em>xin</em> 心) as the …
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Reflective judgment vs. investigation of things – a comparative study of Kant and Zhu Xi
… via Kantian moral teleology. Zhu Xi and his Neo-Confucian contemporaries confronted a transformed intellectual landscape resulting from the Neo-Daoist and Buddhist discourses of “what is beyond the form”. The revival of Confucianism required a method in order to relocate the formless Dao back …