Spiritual Cultivation of Pre-Qin Confucianism

Author: Zheng Shuyuan
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The Confucian school places great importance on the spiritual cultivation of Confucians. The activities of spiritual cultivation by Confucians in the pre-Qin period laid the foundation for the creation and development of Confucian spiritual cultivation. The spiritual cultivation activities of pre-Qin Confucians can be divided into activities of cultivating knowledge and talent, political cultivation, moral cultivation, artistic cultivation, and others. These spiritual cultivation activities are reflected in the self-cultivation and teaching activities of teachers. The core of the spiritual cultivation activities of pre-Qin Confucians is the cultivation of spirit and nature. In this book, the author will conduct a relatively comprehensive study of the spiritual cultivation of pre-Qin Confucianism and mainly elaborate on the ideological sources of pre-Qin Confucian spiritual cultivation, the historical evolution process of the theory of pre-Qin Confucian spiritual cultivation, the logical structure of the theory of pre-Qin Confucian spiritual cultivation, the comparison between the theory of pre-Qin Confucian spiritual cultivation and Daoist spiritual cultivation, and the historical status and modern value of the theory of pre-Qin Confucian spiritual cultivation.