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Self-realization through Confucian learning : a contemporary reconstruction of Xunzi's ethics /
"Self-realization through Confucian Learning reconstructs Confucian thinker Xunzi's moral philosophy in response to the modern focus on self-realization. Xunzi (born around 310 BCE) claims that human xing ("nature" or "native conditions") is without an ethical framework...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2016.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Xing and Native Conditions; Xunzi's definitions of xing; "People's xing is bad"; Natural desires and moral neutrality; Goodness and human agency; Chapter 2. Wei and Human Agency; Definitions of wei; From xing to wei; Human agency: Actions and happenings; Xunzi's worldview; Chapter 3. Xing, Wei, and the Origin of Ritual Propriety; Creation of ritual propriety from wei; People's xing at the two stages of wei; Ritual propriety and the satisfaction of desires; The heart-mind's approval and second-order evaluation.
- Desires and their form of expressionChapter 4. Ritual Propriety and the Good Life; The self and the good; The petty man and the noble man; Understanding the Way; Community and the self; Ritual propriety as self-interpretation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.