Principle and Practicality: Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning

Richard H. Minear, Wm. Theodore de Bary, Irene Bloom

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies · 1981 · 46 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

These essays explore the continuities and discontinuities between the Neo-Confucian thought of Ming China and early Tokugawa Japan and the practical learning of the 17th and 18th centuries, underlining the need for a deeper examination of the complex relationship between traditional and modern thoughts and values.