Confucius meets cognition: new answers to old questions

Early Chinese Confucian virtue ethics saw effortless harmony with the "Way" as essential for ethical life, but raised the problem of how one can, through effort, reach a state of effortless perfection. We decompose this paradox into three sub-paradoxes and review evidence from cognitive ps...

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Authors: Reber, Rolf (Author) ; Slingerland, Edward G. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2011
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2011, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-145
Further subjects:B Confucius
B effortless action
B Spontaneity
B Ritual
B early Chinese thought
B Cognition
B Affect
B processing fluency
B Virtue Ethics
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