The ideas of the great Zhou-dynasty Chinese philosopher Kong Qiu (551–479 BCE), or Confucius, as he is known in the West, diffused to the Korean kingdoms nearly a millennium later, in the early fourth century CE. A century after that, in 405,...

SŎ KYŎNGDŎK (1489–1546), was a leading neo-Confucian philosopher of Yi-dynasty Korea (1392–1910). In Korea he is best known by his honorific name, Hwadam. During the Yi dynasty, neo-Confucianism supplanted Buddhism as...

"Neo-Confucianism" is the Western term given to a major phase in the development and reformulation of Confucianism beginning in eleventh-century Song-dynasty China. It brought a revival of classical Confucian values, texts, concepts, and...

Neo-Confucianism (traditional Chinese: 理學; pinyin: Lǐxué)/(traditional Chinese: 道學; pinyin: Dàoxué) is a form of Confucianism that was primarily developed during the Song Dynasty, but which can be traced back to Han Yu and Li Ao in the Tang...

This book presents W. T. deBary's account of the development of certain aspects of Neo-Confucianism, particularly ideas associated with the label hsin hsueh (Learning of the Mind) and their relation to what he terms orthodoxy from the fifteenth century to the middle of...

Neo-Confucianism is a valid term to designate the new examination orthodoxy that arose in the 12th and 13th centuries and persisted long afterwards. The term thus provides a useful focus, in spite of Hoyt Cleveland Tillman's objections, and it is not necessary to delineate...