Ebook: Confucianism: a Short Introduction

Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century China, this unique new introduction follows a Confucian couple, together with their family, friends, and staff, through a typical day. The result offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual, scholarly, and practical aspects of Confucianism.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 INTRODUCTORY REFLECTIONS; Introducing Confucian lives; A Confucian world; International and cross-cultural Confucianism; A living tradition; Cultural concerns; Confucianism as a way of life; 2 THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF; Beginning with becoming a person: self-cultivation; Quiet-sitting; Back to the world; 3 EDUCATING THE PERSON; The importance of education; Texts and commentaries; Education as cultivation; Preparing for the examinations; Teachers of the inner quarters; 4 TRANSMITTING THE DAO; The classical world; The orderly Han.