The Spiritual Crisis of Modernity and Tu Wei-Ming'S Concept of Self-Cultivation

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10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.138How to use a DOI?

Keywords

contemporary Confucianism; Russian religious philosophy; spiritual crisis in China; Eastern humanism; problems of human nature; concept of Self-cultivation; ritual propriety (li); rectification of names (zheng ming)

Abstract

This article dwells upon the spiritual problems in modern Chinese society. The term 'spirituality' covers not only the value of ethical categories on the traditional China, but also the humanism as the tandem of both religious and ethical components towards human beings. The basic categories of Confucian ethics, 'reinterpreted' through the tradition of analytical philosophy, have acquired a new character – Tu Wei-ming gave them the new understanding through the concept of Self-Cultivation. The process of cultivating occurs for the sake of the human involved into that and is not caused by any external factors.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Valery Kiselev
AU  - Varvara Chernykh
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - The Spiritual Crisis of Modernity and Tu Wei-Ming'S Concept of Self-Cultivation
BT  - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication (ICELAIC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 606
EP  - 608
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.138
DO  - 10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.138
ID  - Kiselev2017/12
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