“In ancient times, it was not heard that people would question the remarried widows, and theyiFootnote14of ‘following one to the end (从一而终)’ was adopted later. The chaste women who served only one husband i
Confucianism is a philosophy based on the teachings of Confucius, who was born in China in the sixth century BC. At its core, Confucianism emphasises the desire for social harmony. The key to achieving social harmony, it is proposed, lies with a proper observance of social mores and in part...
Weaving with M/other These had been fashionable since the 15th century, reflecting the severe Neo-Confucian values of the Joseon court. Collectors' focus Korean ceramics He emphasizes that Neo-Confucian philosophy, which was officially adopted by the government as state ideology during the Ming Dynas...
This became the official philosophy of the ruling class and was highly respected. In modern times, Confucian ethics has been subject to the impact of Western thought and culture, but remains an important part of Chinese culture and society. In recent years, the Party Central Committee, with ...
philosophy and humanism is “not the humanism that denies or slights a Supreme Power, but one that professes the unity of man and Heaven” (p. 3). In contrast to Western humanism, which is based on secularism and devalues things that are associated with nature, the spiritual and naturalist...
they found ways to do so. This strategy aligns with Confucian philosophy—people were pragmatic with respect to how they dealt with and viewed censorship and made decisions about when to just live with it. The choice of circumventing or not was subject to participants’ agendas and interests. ...
At the same time, I am very much of the same mind with Manyul that --indeed-- Confucius probably was NOT concerned with sex, romance or beauty as being "dangers" which the virtuous man must avoid.This is not Stoic philosophy--nor is it Victorian sensibility, after all. ...
I completely agree with comment by H Wang above. In fact, he really beat me to the punch as I was about to say something very similar. And that is, my hunch is that you spend some real time trying to domesticate Chinese philosophy but often seem to get caught up in language issues…...
There is a need to have a more in-depth understanding of Confucian heritage of Asian students in the present-day state of civil society in Asian countries, in order to reduce the chances of misunderstandings and of ethnocen- trism.75 For instance, Confucian philosophy demands reflection, ...
Government and society in China were grounded in the Confucian philosophy, which held that there was a basic order in the universe and a natural harmony linking man, nature, and the cosmos (heaven) ; it also held that man was by nature a social being, and that the natural order ...