Author: Wei-ming Tu Publisher: Cheng & Tsui ISBN: 9780887273179 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 412
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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
Author: P. J. Ivanhoe Publisher: Hackett Publishing ISBN: 9780872205086 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 148
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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.
Author: Tu Wei-ming Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438422407 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 220
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Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation is a collection of Tu's seminal essays. It is a sustained deliberation on the substance and worth of the Confucian conception of personhood. This analysis complements Tu's highly acclaimed Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought as a continued expression of his deepening understanding of Confucianism voiced through various perennial human concerns. Tu weaves philosophic, historical, anthropological, sociological, and psychological perspectives into a coherent discussion of the Confucian themes that continue to inspire the modern intellectual mind. His is a vital contribution to Chinese thought and religion.
Author: Mimi Kuo-Deemer Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486841723 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 242
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A simple yet powerful principle, xiu yang fosters balance and peace. This expert guide to its ancient teachings features a combination of practices from meditation and mindfulness to yoga and qigong.
Author: SHAOYONG LI Publisher: American Academic Press ISBN: 1631815369 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 357
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All kinds of problems in the world, in the final analysis, are human problems which originate from the evil, selfishness and ignorance of human nature. The book "Self-cultivation of Human Beings" reflects on the crises and contradictions faced by the world today with the Oriental scholars’ lofty ideals of "self-cultivation, family regulation, state governance and maintaining world peace". It consists of five chapters of "Spiritual Beliefs, Self-cultivation of Human Life, The State and the Society, Wisdom and Reason, Human Destiny",discussing the topics that we must face in life: how to deal with suffering and trouble, how to distinguish between good and evil, and how to improve fate and pursue happiness, as well as people's spiritual beliefs and the meaning of life. The author attaches great importance to family construction, advocates love and tolerance, benevolence and morality, holds in high esteem of angels, heroes and sages, discusses the great role of education, science, rule of law, criticism, struggle and communication in human progress, and has profound thinking about the road of national rejuvenation and prosperity, as well as military principles in the hope of enlightening people’s way of thinking.
Author: Jennifer A. Herdt Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022661851X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 338
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Kant’s proclamation of humankind’s emergence from “self-incurred immaturity” left his contemporaries with a puzzle: What models should we use to sculpt ourselves if we no longer look to divine grace or received authorities? Deftly uncovering the roots of this question in Rhineland mysticism, Pietist introspection, and the rise of the bildungsroman, Jennifer A. Herdt reveals bildung, or ethical formation, as the key to post-Kantian thought. This was no simple process of secularization, in which human beings took responsibility for something they had earlier left in the hands of God. Rather, theorists of bildung, from Herder through Goethe to Hegel, championed human agency in self-determination while working out the social and political implications of our creation in the image of God. While bildung was invoked to justify racism and colonialism by stigmatizing those deemed resistant to self-cultivation, it also nourished ideals of dialogical encounter and mutual recognition. Herdt reveals how the project of forming humanity lives on in our ongoing efforts to grapple with this complicated legacy.
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674735463 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 345
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How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” is rooted in Seneca’s ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found—in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum establishes three core values of liberal education: critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen, and the development of the narrative imagination. Then, taking us into classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent research universities, small independent colleges, and religious institutions, she shows how these values are (and in some instances are not) being embodied in particular courses. She defends such burgeoning subject areas as gender, minority, and gay studies against charges of moral relativism and low standards, and underscores their dynamic and fundamental contribution to critical reasoning and world citizenship. For Nussbaum, liberal education is alive and well on American campuses in the late twentieth century. It is not only viable, promising, and constructive, but it is essential to a democratic society. Taking up the challenge of conservative critics of academe, she argues persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education today.
Author: Matthew Dennis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351591533 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 234
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The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been a revival of Aristotelian ethics combined with a modern preoccupation with standards for the moral rightness of actions. The essays comprising this volume offer a fresh approach to the eudaimonic tradition: instead of conditions for rightness of actions, it focuses on conceptions of human life that are best for the one living it. The first section of essays looks at the Hellenistic schools and the way they influenced modern thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Hadot, and Foucault in their thinking about self-cultivation. The second section offers contemporary perspectives on ethical self-cultivation by drawing on work in moral psychology, epistemology of self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, and meta-ethics.
Author: Yasuo Yuasa Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438424698 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 270
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This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body. Yuasa examines the concept of ki-energy as it has been used in such areas as acupuncture, Buddhist and Taoist meditation, and the martial arts. To explain the achievement of mind-body oneness in these traditions he offers an innovative schematization of the lived body. His approach is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, offering insights into Western philosophy, religion, medical science, depth psychology, parapsychology, theater, and physical education. To substantiate the relationship that ki-energy forms between the human body and its environment, Yuasa introduces contemporary scientific research on ki-energy in China and Japan, as well as evidence from acupuncture medicine and from the experience of meditators and martial arts practitioners. This evidence requires not only a rethinking of the living human body and of the mind-body and mind-matter relation, but also calls into question the adequacy of the existing scientific paradigm. Yuasa calls for an epistemological critique of modern science and explores the issue of the relation of teleology to science.
Author: Wei-ming Tu
Author: P. J. Ivanhoe
Author: Tu Wei-ming
Author: Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Author: SHAOYONG LI
Author: Kwong-Loi Shun
Author: Jennifer A. Herdt
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Author: Matthew Dennis
Author: Yasuo Yuasa