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

Bok av William Theodore De Bary
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