Self-cultivation, Governing the State, Bringing Peace to the World - A Comprehensive Discussion on Chinese Harmonious Culture

Author: Cao Deběn
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Publishing Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Combining the integration of culture with the combination of thinking modes, promoting transcendence with fusion, combining traditional analysis with modern value, and combining academic discourse with self-cultivation and moral education as the four major research methods. Based on the theoretical foundation of "Unity of Heaven and Man," it proposes an insightful "Harmonious Culture Theory" and summarizes the close relationship between self-cultivation, governing the state, and achieving peace in the world. The content is extensive, focusing on an easy-to-understand explanation of the essence of traditional Chinese culture from thirteen aspects, mainly including "On the Unity of Heaven and Man," "On Harmonious Culture," "On the Distinction of Human Nature," "On Self-Cultivation," "On the Ideal Realm," and others. This book combines the author's previously published four monographs—Exploration of Traditional Chinese Thought, Confucian Strategy for Governing the State, Traditional Chinese Culture and Modernization, and Theology of Traditional Chinese Culture—with the author's 12 published papers and the preface of this new work, "Self-Cultivation, Governing the State, and Achieving Peace in the World," to encompass the essence of Confucian thought. The book follows a main thread of the author's academic research, which is the basic spirit demonstrated by the "Eight Objectives" in the Confucian classic Great Learning—"Investigation of Things, Extension of Knowledge, Sincerity of Will, Rectification of the Mind, Self-Cultivation, Family Regulation, Governing the State, and Achieving Peace in the World." This is also the theoretical foundation of philosophical thought, the behavioral of ethical thought, and ultimately the ideal pursuit of political thought. Self-cultivation, governing the state, and achieving peace in the world are the core value system of traditional Chinese culture.
This book adopts the four major research methods of combining culture integration with thinking modes, promoting transcendence with fusion, combining traditional analysis with modern value, and combining academic discourse with self-cultivation and moral education. Based on the theoretical foundation of "Unity of Heaven and Man," it proposes an insightful "Harmonious Culture Theory" and summarizes the close relationship between self-cultivation, governing the state, and achieving peace in the world.
The content is extensive, focusing on an easy-to-understand explanation of the essence of traditional Chinese culture from thirteen aspects, mainly including "On the Unity of Heaven and Man," "On Harmonious Culture," "On the Distinction of Human Nature," "On Self-Cultivation," "On the Ideal Realm," and others.
This book combines the author's previously published four monographs—Exploration of Traditional Chinese Thought, Confucian Strategy for Governing the State, Traditional Chinese Culture and Modernization, and Theology of Traditional Chinese Culture—with the author's 12 published papers and the preface of this new work, "Self-Cultivation, Governing the State, and Achieving Peace in the World," to encompass the essence of Confucian thought. The book follows a main thread of the author's academic research, which is the basic spirit demonstrated by the "Eight Objectives" in the Confucian classic Great Learning—"Investigation of Things, Extension of Knowledge, Sincerity of Will, Rectification of the Mind, Self-Cultivation, Family Regulation, Governing the State, and Achieving Peace in the World." This is also the theoretical foundation of philosophical thought, the behavioral of ethical thought, and ultimately the ideal pursuit of political thought. Self-cultivation, governing the state, and achieving peace in the world are the core value system of traditional Chinese culture.
This book adopts the four major research methods of combining culture integration with thinking modes, promoting transcendence with fusion, combining traditional analysis with modern value, and combining academic discourse with self-cultivation and moral education. Based on the theoretical foundation of "Unity of Heaven and Man," it proposes an insightful "Harmonious Culture Theory" and summarizes the close relationship between self-cultivation, governing the state, and achieving peace in the world.