Sage and great person in Zhang Zai’s thought

The idea of the Confucian sage-king can be politically dangerous if the implication is that anyone can become a sage through learning. But Confucians after the Han dynasty generally saw the task of becoming a sage practically impossible, while Neo-Confucians after the Song distinguished between the...

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Main Author: Song, Yunwoo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Carfax 2022
In: Asian philosophy
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-200
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Zhang, Zai 1020-1077 / Wise person / Ruler / Legitimation / History 500 BC-1100
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
NCA Ethics
TB Antiquity
TE Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Moral authority
B great person
B Zhang Zai
B Political Authority
B sage-king
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