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(2018) The Confucian political imagination, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter considers Confucian revivals. Confucians considered the time after Mencius to be one long decline, and Confucianism is therefore a series of ever more radical attempts to revive the discourse of the sages (shengren zhiyan). The chapter presents a rhetorical analysis of two exemplary Confucian texts that aim at a revival of Confucianism: an essay by Wang Yangming (1472–1529), which exemplifies the Confucian revival in the Song and Ming, and an essay by Tu Weiming (b. 1940), which exemplifies the attempts to revive Confucianism in the contemporary world. It is shown that these essays, like the dialogue from Mencius in Chap. 3, exhibit the salient features of Confucian discourse.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74899-3_4
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Møllgaard, E. (2018). The revivals, in The Confucian political imagination, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 77-100.
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