Self-realization through Confucian learning : a contemporary reconstruction of Xunzi’s ethics
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"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 and has a tendency to dominate, leading to bad judgments and bad behavior. Confucian ritual propriety (li) is needed to transform these human nativeconditions. Through li, people become self-directing: in control of feelings and desires and in command of their own lives."--Page 4 of cover.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Siu-Fu
Tang
Xunzi - Language
- English
- Series
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
- ISBN
- 9781438461496
- Release date
- 2016
