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Neo-Confucianism (Chinese: 宋明理學; pinyin: Sòng-Míng lǐxué, often shortened to lǐxué 理學, literally "School of Principle") is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, which originated with Han Yu (768–824) and Li Ao (772–841) in the Tang dynasty, and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties under the formulations of Zhu Xi ...
The religious motives of the Christian missionaries accounted for differences in ideology, specifically with the Chinese Neo-Confucian “emphasis on rationalism and idealism”. [7] The Chinese scholars highlighted the interplay between the “way of heaven” ( tiandao ) and “the way of man” (rendao) in the revival of Confucianism ...
The Four Books (四書; Sìshū) are Chinese classic texts illustrating the core value and belief systems in Confucianism. They were selected by intellectual Zhu Xi in the Song dynasty to serve as general introduction to Confucian thought, and they were, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, made the core of the official curriculum for the civil ...
Song-Yuan Neo-Confucianism was a "systematic philosophy of self, society, government, and cosmos." [42] The original goal at the inception of the Neo-Confucian movement was to shift the emphasis of formal education away from literary achievements to the learning of the moral Way (dao 道). [32]
The Four Books served as the basis of civil service examinations up until 1905, [14] and education in the classics often began with Zhu Xi's commentaries as the cornerstone for understanding them. [15] The sources of Zhu Xi's new approach to the Confucian curriculum have been found in several works of the Cheng brothers.
Like Chinese and Korean Confucianism, Edo Neo-Confucianism is a social and ethical philosophy based on metaphysical ideas. The philosophy can be characterized as humanistic and rationalistic, with the belief that the universe could be understood through human reason, and that it was up to man to create a harmonious relationship between the universe and the individual.
'New Confucianism') is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in Republican China, and further developed in post-Mao era contemporary China. It primarily developed during the May Fourth Movement. [1] It is deeply influenced by, but not identical with, the neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties. [2]
Portrayal of Wang Yangming. School of the Heart (Chinese: 心學; pinyin: xīn xué), or Yangmingism (Chinese: 陽明學; pinyin: yángmíng xué; Japanese: 陽明学, romanized: yōmeigaku), is one of the major philosophical schools of Neo-Confucianism, based on the ideas of the idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Shouren (whose pseudonym was Yangming Zi and thus is often referred as Wang ...