Doctrine Of The Mean Or How To Achieve Equilibrium

Author : Confucius
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788074848612

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Doctrine of The Mean (or How to Achieve Equilibrium) by Confucius Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: “Doctrine of The Mean (or How to Achieve Equilibrium)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In the The Doctrine of the Mean, one of the writings attributed to Confucius, many of the central doctrines of Confucianism are elaborated. The characteristic of jen is articulated in terms of a cluster of related moral terms including the Five Relationships, the principle of reciprocity (the Golden Rule), and various forms of virtue. The heart of Confucianism is explained here as the adoption of the policies of inculcating virtue in people by the example of tradition and the jen of the superior person. Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. This carefully crafted ebook: “Doctrine of The Mean (or How to Achieve Equilibrium)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In the The Doctrine of the Mean, one of the writings attributed to Confucius, many of the central doctrines of Confucianism are elaborated. The characteristic of jen is articulated in terms of a cluster of related moral terms including the Five Relationships, the principle of reciprocity (the Golden Rule), and various forms of virtue. The heart of Confucianism is explained here as the adoption of the policies of inculcating virtue in people by the example of tradition and the jen of the superior person. Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

Author : Confucius
Publisher : Musaicum Books
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788027233649

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DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN (The Confucian Way to Achieve Equilibrium) by Confucius Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: The Life, Labours and Doctrines of Confucius The Great Learning Classic of History (Part 1 & 2: The Book of Thang & The Books of Yü) The Analects (The Revised James Legge Translation) Doctrine of The Mean (or How to Achieve Equilibrium) The Great Learning (A short Confucian text + Commentary by Tsang) Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

Author : Jiyuan Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136748486

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The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle by Jiyuan Yu Pdf

As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to develop new readings and perspectives of both ethics that would be unattainable if each were studied on its own.

Author : Yueqing Wang,Qinggang Bao,Guoxing Guan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811525728

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History of Chinese Philosophy Through Its Key Terms by Yueqing Wang,Qinggang Bao,Guoxing Guan Pdf

This book provides a conceptual overview of the evolution of Chinese philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the end of the imperial era, highlighting 38 of the most essential terms in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Written by prominent contemporary scholars from Mainland China, the respective chapters cover topics ranging from cosmology, benti metaphysics, human nature, self-cultivation, and methodology, to views on history and politics. Each chapter addresses one of the constitutive terms of the Chinese philosophical tradition and provides clear historical information on how it was used and developed during the key periods of Chinese philosophy.Highlighting both central concepts and essential structures of Chinese philosophy, the book allows readers to view the history of Chinese philosophy from the perspective of the Chinese themselves. Offering content that is both academically rigorous and accessible for a wider audience, this book is an indispensable reference guide for all students of Chinese philosophy.

Author : Charlene Tan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317802570

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Educational Policy Borrowing in China by Charlene Tan Pdf

For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars have used a local proverb "the West wind has overpowered the East wind" to describe this phenomenon of ‘looking West’. But what do we mean by educational policy borrowing from the West? What are the educational policies in China's new curriculum reform that are perceived to be borrowed from the West? To what extent have the borrowed educational policies in China's new curriculum reform been accepted, modified, and rejected by the various educational stakeholders? How does culture influence the various educational stakeholders in China in interpreting and mediating educational policy borrowing from the West? How do the findings of this study on China’s education reform inform and add to the existing theories on and approaches to on cross-cultural educational policy borrowing? This book answers the above questions by critically discussing China’s policy borrowing from the West through its current reform for primary and secondary education. It presents the latest in-depth research findings from a three-year empirical study (2013-2015) with school principals, teachers, students and other educational stakeholders across China. This study offers new insights into China’s educational policy borrowing from the West and international implications on cross-cultural educational transfer for academics, policymakers and educators.

Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761765

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The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics by Paula Gottlieb Pdf

This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Author : Theodore James Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111675084

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Physiological Theory and the Doctrine of the Mean in Plato and Aristotle by Theodore James Tracy Pdf

Author : Sung-Hae Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000986532

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Confucian Timely Mean and Christian Discernment by Sung-Hae Kim Pdf

This book explores the notion of timely mean, a virtue established in the Confucian tradition, in dialogue with the Christian understanding of discernment, especially as used in spirituality studies. It considers the historical development of these concepts, addressing the early encounter between Confucianism and Christianity as demonstrated in China and Korea, and the fusion of the two perspectives in the nineteenth century. The chapters examine some of the major scholars and texts that have influenced both theory and practice, providing insight through a comparison of representative figures from each tradition. The author contends that bringing Confucian ‘timely mean’ into conversation with Christian ‘discernment’ reveals that the immense riches accumulated within each tradition can mutually enhance one another. The book reflects on the possibility of a viable process for ethical and spiritual discernment that is highly relevant for our global age. It is valuable reading for scholars and students of both Confucianism and Christian theology as well as of applied ethics, particularly those interested in comparative spirituality and interreligious relations.

Author : Robert E. Canright Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781463457624

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Achieve Lasting Happiness by Robert E. Canright Jr. Pdf

Everyone wants a happy life. We sometimes assume possessions, power, prestige, or excitement will make us happy. All these pursuits eventually leave people feeling unfulfilled. Achieve Lasting Happiness, shows the secret to happiness lies within our humanity. We can realize the full potential of our humanity through the power of self-transformation. This book explains a four-step process for a fulfilling life. The four-step process is applied in a 28-day guided study using the timeless lessons of Confucius. This book will empower you to change your life. It will put you on the path to lasting happiness.

Author : Paul Cassell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004293762

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Religion, Emergence, and the Origins of Meaning by Paul Cassell Pdf

In Religion, Emergence, and the Origins of Meaning, Paul Cassell uses ‘emergence theory’ to explain why religion is so meaningful to individuals and central to social life, going beyond the foundational explanations of Émile Durkheim and Roy Rappaport.

Author : Roger T. Ames,David L. Hall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824862558

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Focusing the Familiar by Roger T. Ames,David L. Hall Pdf

The Zhongyong--translated here as Focusing the Familiar--has been regarded as a document of enormous wisdom for more than two millennia and is one of Confucianism's most sacred and seminal texts. It achieved truly canonical preeminence when it became one of the Four Books compiled and annotated by the Southern Song dynasty philosopher Zhu Xi (1130-1200). Within the compass of world literature, the influence of these books (Analects of Confucius, Great Learning, Zhongyong, and Mencius) on the Sinitic world of East Asia has been no less than the Bible and the Qu'ran on Western civilization. With this new translation David Hall and Roger Ames provide a distinctly philosophical interpretation of the Zhongyong, remaining attentive to the semantic and conceptual nuances of the text to account for its central place within classical Chinese literature. They present the text in such a way as to provide Western philosophers and other intellectuals access to a set of interpretations and arguments that offer new insights into issues and concerns common to both Chinese and Western thinkers. In addition to the annotated translation, a glossary of terms gives in concise form important senses of the terms that play a key role in the argument of the Zhongyong. An appendix addresses some of the more technical issues relevant to the understanding of both the history of the text and the history of its English translations. Here the translators introduce readers to the best contemporary textual studies of the Zhongyong and make use of the most recent archaeological discoveries in China to place the work within its own intellectual context.

Author : Paul S Chung
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227901014

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The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference by Paul S Chung Pdf

Incorporating a tour of the past and a proposition for the future, Chung presents a fascinating study of inter civilizational hermeneutics that embraces our modern times and suggests the liberative potential of hermeneutical study. Adopting a subtleapproach that stays clear of trying to impose upon the reader a simplistic understanding of hermeneutical discourses, Chung instead draws on a host of classical and modern scholars in search of a new and refreshing global hermeneutical theory.

Author : Xin Conan-Wu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004693708

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Lure of the Supreme Joy by Xin Conan-Wu Pdf

In this book, Xin Conan-Wu presents a radically revisionist argument on Zhu Xi’s (1130–1200) Neo-Confucian philosophy of education. Via analyses of unfamiliar landscapes and the poems of the White-Deer Grotto Academy, Yuelu Academy, and Wuyi Retreat, Conan-Wu argues that when praxis speaks for orthodoxy, the eclipsed pedagogue casts a liberal light on the enshrined philosopher. Neo-Confucian senses of the gaze and place engendered Zhu Xi’s natural pedagogy and mapped the environment of his academies. This book cross-examines the textual traces and their innate vision, the physical sites and their transhistorical milieux, the Eight Views and Nine Bends and their afterlives in China and Korea. It unfurls an academy education, mutually reinforced by classical learning and self-cultivation, and sustained by a lure of the Supreme Joy of Confucian sagehood.

Author : Cheng Man-ch'ing á
Publisher : Blue Snake Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1583942203

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Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Cheng Man-ch'ing á Pdf

Millions of people worldwide practice t’ai chi, the most popular form of which was codified beginning in the 1960s by Cheng Man Ch’ing. In this scholarly yet practical book, Professor Cheng shows precisely how the postures and moves of t’ai chi work, with examples from anatomy and physics, both internally as energetic principles and externally on opponents. He clarifies the spheres, triangles, and centripetal and centrifugal forces within physical exchanges such as push-hands. Contrasting Western and Chinese techniques of healing, he also explores the relationships of organs to one another in pathology and the necessary dynamics of treatment. Professor Cheng explains how the practitioner may serve as his or her own doctor and, likewise, as the physician or trainer of an attacker. The martial arts, he says, are not a special case of unusual power, simply an aspect of adapting natural and cosmic law to circumstance. This edition of the classic text contains 13 major essays; oral secrets from Cheng’s teacher Yang Cheng’fu; a Q&A with commentary on martial arts classics; the author’s application and functions of each of the 37 postures of the short form, with the original photographs of him as a young man; two prefaces; and much more.

Author : Zhongjian Mou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811972065

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A Brief History of the Relationship Between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism by Zhongjian Mou Pdf

Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension. The three traditions are frequently referred to as three paths of moral teachings. In this book, Mou provides a clear account of the textual corpus that emerges to define each of these traditions and how this canonical axis was augmented by a continuing commentarial tradition as each generation reauthorized the written core for their own time and place. In his careful exegesis, Mou lays out the differences between the more religious reading of these traditions with their defining practices that punctuate the human journey through life, and the more intellectual and philosophical treatment of the texts that has and continues to produce a first-order culture of annotation that become integral to the traditions themselves. At the center of the alternative religious experience reflected throughout the teachings of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism is the project of personal cultivation as it comes to be expressed as robust growth in family and communal relations. For Mou, these three highly distinctive and yet complementary ways of thinking and living constitute a kind of moral ecology, wherein each of them complements the others as they stand in service to a different dimension of the human need for an educated spirituality.