Learning for Oneself: Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought

ISBN-13: 9780231074261 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 461 str.

William Theodore De Bary

Opis

Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that