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

Author/Contributor(s):	Bary, Wm Theodore de
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	05/13/1991
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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