Titlebook: Dao Companion to Classical Confucian Philosophy; Vincent Shen Book 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Ancient Chinese phi

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Early Confucian Virtue Ethics: The Virtues of ,certain terms such as . 仁 (benevolence, humaneness), . 禮 (rules of proper conduct, ritual, rites), and . 義 (rightness, righteousness. fittingness), indicating Confucius’ ongoing concern with the cultivation of fundamental virtues. His remark that there is one thread (. 一貫) that runs through his teac

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Ultimate Reality and Self-Cultivation in Early Confucianism: A Conceptual/Existential Approach psychological and spiritual levels. In the Confucian context, this self-cultivation has an undeniably strong moral sense (Ames 1985). However, this morality has also a metaphysical dimension that has frequently been overlooked by scholars. Therefore, in this chapter, I will attempt to illustrate th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69813-2 from the religious experience with High God’s or Heaven’s revealing to the humanist construction of the meaningfulness of human existence. This concerns the way early Chinese people conceived the Ultimate Reality in terms of .上帝 (High God) or . 天 (Heaven) and His/Its revelation. In particular, this

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69813-2the West by the Latinized term, Confucius (551–479 B.C.E.). While “Kong” is his family name, “Fuzi,” close in meaning to “master,” is a respectful way of addressing the man. His given name, Qiu, is rarely applied in references to him.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69813-2ning and with moral aspirations and commitment and he called these people noble scholars (. 士). When they were properly and sufficiently trained in the various arts and classical learning, the noble scholars often tried to seek political office to restore the society that was in ritual disorder, and

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69813-2 Zhou Dynasty’s King Jing and lived to the ripe old age of 82 .歲 (483–402 BCE). Despite Zisi’s exalted ancestry, gaps in the historical record have made it extremely difficult for scholars to obtain an understanding of his thought with any certainty. The following two sections will briefly review so

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69813-2ilestones marking the transition of Confucian thought, from the kernels of ancient wisdom encapsulated in the early canonic writings: . 書經(jīng) (.), .易經(jīng) (.) and . 詩經(jīng) (.) together with the diffuse ethical teachings set forth in the name of Confucius in the . 論語 (.), toward the gradual emergence of Confuci

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Atmospheric Environmental Researchh his parents were quite poor. It has been a famous legend that for the sake of a better education environment for him, his mother moved 3 times. Like Confucius (Kongzi孔子), during his earlier life Mencius travelled from one state to another to convince the lords to accept his political ideas. After