Confucianism A Habit Of The Heart

Author : Philip J. Ivanhoe,Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438460130

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Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart by Philip J. Ivanhoe,Sungmoon Kim Pdf

Employs Robert Bellah’s notion of civil religion to explore East Asia’s Confucian revival. Can Confucianism be regarded as a civil religion for East Asia? This book explores this question, bringing the insights of Robert Bellah to a consideration of various expressions of the contemporary Confucian revival. Bellah identified American civil religion as a religious dimension of life that can be found throughout US culture, but one without any formal institutional structure. Rather, this “civil” form of religion provides the ethical principles that command reverence and by which a nation judges itself. Extending Bellah’s work, contributors from both the social sciences and the humanities conceive of East Asia’s Confucian revival as a “habit of the heart,” an underlying belief system that guides a society, and examine how Confucianism might function as a civil religion in China, Korea, and Japan. They discuss what aspects of Confucian tradition and thought are being embraced; some of the social movements, political factors, and opportunities connected with the revival of the tradition; and why Confucianism has not traveled much beyond East Asia. The late Robert Bellah’s reflection on the possibility for a global civil religion concludes the volume.

Author : Wonsuk Chang,Leah Kalmanson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438431925

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Confucianism in Context by Wonsuk Chang,Leah Kalmanson Pdf

What is Confucianism? This book provides a wide-ranging view of the tradition and its contemporary relevance for Western readers. Discussing the development of Confucianism in China, the work goes on to show the deep impact of Korean and Japanese cultures on Confucian thinking. A dialogic way of thought, highly sensitive to locations and conditions, Confucianism is shown to be a valuable philosophical resource for a multicultural, globalizing world. In addition to discussing Confucianism' unique responses to traditional philosophical problems, such as the nature of self and society, Confucianism in Context shows how Confucian philosophy can contribute to contemporary issues such as democracy, human rights, feminism, and ecology.

Author : P. J. Ivanhoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190492014

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Three Streams by P. J. Ivanhoe Pdf

Recent interest in Confucianism has a tendency to suffer from essentialism and idealism, manifested in a variety of ways. One example is to think of Confucianism in terms of the views attributed to one representative of the tradition, such as Kongzi (Confucius) (551-479 BCE) or Mengzi (Mencius) (372 - 289 BCE) or one school or strand of the tradition, most often the strand or tradition associated with Mengzi or, in the later tradition, that formed around the commentaries and interpretation of Zhu Xi (1130-1200). Another such tendency is to think of Confucianism in terms of its manifestations in only one country; this is almost always China for the obvious reasons that China is one of the most powerful and influential states in the world today. A third tendency is to present Confucianism in terms of only one period or moment in the tradition; for example, among ethical and political philosophers, pre-Qin Confucianism--usually taken to be the writings attributed to Kongzi, Mengzi, and, if we are lucky, Xunzi (479-221 BCE)--often is taken as "Confucianism." These and other forms of essentialism and idealism have led to a widespread and deeply entrenched impression that Confucianism is thoroughly homogenous and monolithic (these often are "facts" mustered to support the purportedly oppressive, authoritarian, and constricted nature of the tradition); such impressions can be found throughout East Asia and dominate in the West. This is quite deplorable for it gives us no genuine sense of the creatively rich, philosophically powerful, highly variegated, and still very much open-ended nature of the Confucian tradition. This volume addresses this misconstrual and misrepresentation of Confucianism by presenting a philosophically critical account of different Confucian thinkers and schools, across place (China, Korea, and Japan) and time (the 10th to 19th centuries).

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107106222

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Public Reason Confucianism by Sungmoon Kim Pdf

Public reason Confucianism is a particular style of Confucian democratic perfectionism in which comprehensive Confucianism is connected with perfectionism.

Author : Walter H. Slote,George A. De Vos
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791437361

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Confucianism and the Family by Walter H. Slote,George A. De Vos Pdf

An interdisciplinary exploration of the Confucian family in East Asia which includes historical, psychocultural, and gender studies perspectives.

Author : Shaun O’Dwyer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438475493

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Confucianism's Prospects by Shaun O’Dwyer Pdf

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and critically evaluates communitarian Confucian alternatives to liberal democracy. In Confucianism’s Prospects, Shaun O’Dwyer offers a rare critical engagement with English-language scholarship on Confucianism. Against the background of historical and sociological research into the rapid modernization of East Asian societies, O’Dwyer reviews several key Confucian ethical ideas and proposals for East Asian alternatives to liberal democracy that have emerged from this scholarship. He also puts the following question to Confucian scholars: what prospects do those ideas and proposals have in East Asian societies in which liberal democracy and pluralism are well established, and individualization and declining fertility are impacting deeply upon family life? In making his case, O’Dwyer draws upon the neglected work of Japanese philosophers and intellectuals who were witnesses to Japan’s pioneering East Asian modernization and protagonists in the rise and disastrous wartime fall of its own modernized Confucianism. He contests a sometimes Sinocentric and ahistorical conception of East Asian societies as “Confucian societies,” while also recognizing that Confucian traditions can contribute importantly to global philosophical dialogue and to civic and religious life. “This book makes a significant contribution to the field by analyzing a number of claims of modern Confucianism from a critical philosophical perspective.” — Kiri Paramore, author of Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History

Author : P. J. Ivanhoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN : 0190492031

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Three Streams by P. J. Ivanhoe Pdf

Duty, Love, and HeavenConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783482252

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Confucianism, Law, and Democracy in Contemporary Korea by Sungmoon Kim Pdf

Comparative political theory has grown into a recognized discipline in its own right in the last two decades. Yet little has been done to explore how political theory engages with the actual social, legal, and political reality of a particular polity. East Asians are complexly conditioned by traditional Confucian norms and habits, despite significant social, economic, and political changes in their contemporary lives. This volume seeks to address this important issue by developing a specifically Confucian political and legal theory. The volume focuses on South Korea, whose traditional society was and remains the most Confucianized among pre-modern East Asian countries. It offers an interesting case for thinking about Confucian democracy and constitutionalism because its liberal-democratic institutions are compatible with and profoundly influenced by the Confucian habit of the heart. The book wrestles with the practical meaning of liberal rights under the Korean Confucian societal culture and illuminates a way in which traditional Confucianism can be transformed through legal and political processes into a new Confucianism relevant to democratic practices in contemporary Korea.

Author : Robert Eno
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438402086

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The Confucian Creation of Heaven by Robert Eno Pdf

Demonstrating that the relation between practice and theory in early Confucianism is highly systematic, the author suggests that Confucianism represents a species of 'synthetic' philosophy, distinct from the analytical traditions of the West but equally rigorous in its attempt to disclose the foundations of understanding. He illustrates how theory served as an ancillary activity, expressing ethical insights derived from the systematic structure of core ritual practice, and legitimizing those insights in terms of teleological model of their efficacy in creating a divinely ordained political utopia. The central agenda of the early Confucians is pictured as the preservation and promotion of ritual skills and the aesthetic social perspectives they generate. Metaphysical and political theory serve as practical vehicles mediating between the skill-based philosophy of the early Confucian community and the changing features of the intellectual, social, and political environments in which that community had to survive.

Author : Anna Xiao Dong Sun
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691155579

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Confucianism as a World Religion by Anna Xiao Dong Sun Pdf

Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion. The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when Friedrich Max Müller and James Legge classified Confucianism as a world religion in the new discourse of "world religions" and the emerging discipline of comparative religion. Anna Sun shows how that decisive moment continues to influence the understanding of Confucianism in the contemporary world, not only in the West but also in China, where the politics of Confucianism has become important to the present regime in a time of transition. Contested histories of Confucianism are vital signs of social and political change. Sun also examines the revival of Confucianism in contemporary China and the social significance of the ritual practice of Confucian temples. While the Chinese government turns to Confucianism to justify its political agenda, Confucian activists have started a movement to turn Confucianism into a religion. Confucianism as a world religion might have begun as a scholarly construction, but are we witnessing its transformation into a social and political reality? With historical analysis, extensive research, and thoughtful reflection, Confucianism as a World Religion will engage all those interested in religion and global politics at the beginning of the Chinese century.

Author : Youngmin Kim,Michael J. Pettid
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438437774

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Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea by Youngmin Kim,Michael J. Pettid Pdf

A new, multifaceted look at Korean women during a period of strong Confucian ideology. This volume offers a fresh, multifaceted exploration of women and Confucianism in mid- to late-Chosoán Korea (mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century). Using primary sources and perspectives from social history, intellectual history, literature, and political thought, contributors challenge unitary views of Confucianism as a system of thought, of women as a group, and of the relationship between the two. Much earlier scholarship has focused on how women were oppressed under the strict patriarchal systems that emerged as Confucianism became the dominant social ideology during the Chosoán dynasty (1392–1910). Contributors to this volume bring to light the varied ways that diverse women actually lived during this era, from elite yangban women to women who were enslaved. Women are shown to have used various strategies to seek status, economic rights, and more comfortable spaces, with some women even emerging as Confucian intellectuals and exemplars. Youngmin Kim is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seoul National University. Michael J. Pettid is Associate Professor of Premodern Korean Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History and cotranslator (with Kil Cha) of Unyoáng-joán: A Love Affair at the Royal Palace of Chosoán Korea.

Author : Philip J. Ivanhoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:963930815

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Three Streams by Philip J. Ivanhoe Pdf

Author : Yinghua Lu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004319097

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Confucianism and Phenomenology by Yinghua Lu Pdf

With a focus on Confucian descriptions, this book carefully examines feeling, value and virtue and reveals the order of the heart by a phenomenological clarification of our personal and interpersonal experience.

Author : Weiming Tu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Confucianism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034151469

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The Way, Learning and Politics in Classical Confucian Humanism by Weiming Tu Pdf

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107049031

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Confucian Democracy in East Asia by Sungmoon Kim Pdf

Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.