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Approximately fifteen hundred years after Confucius, his ideas
reasserted themselves in the formulation of a sophisticated program
of personal self-cultivation. Neo-Confucians argued that humans are
endowed with empathy and goodness at birth, an assumption now
confirmed by evolutionary biologists. By following the Great
Learning--eight steps in the process of personal
development--Neo-Confucians showed how this innate endowment could
provide the foundation for living morally. Neo-Confucian students
did not follow a single manual elaborating each step of the Great
Learning; instead they were exposed to age-appropriate texts,
commentaries, and anthologies of Neo-Confucian thinkers, which
gradually made clear the sequential process of personal development
and its connection to social order. Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation
opens up in accessible prose the content of the eight-step process
for today's reader as it examines the source of mainstream
Neo-Confucian self-cultivation and its major crosscurrents from
1000 to 1900.
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