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Living organ transplantation requires ethical reflection on the relational dynamics embedded behind the flow of organs. In the Confucian concept of gift-giving, living organs are regarded as ritual gifts rather than mere objects, reflecting the ethical tangibility and productive nature of transplant...

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Background: Confucianist, Buddhist and Taoist teachings offer insight into emotion processing for members of East Asian cultures. Emerging research also suggests distinguishing Confucianism into restrictive (focused on restricting self-needs for the greater good), and empowering (emphasising self-im...

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Literati painting of the Song Dynasty is not only an important art form in the history of the development of Chinese painting, but also a special spiritual expression form of the literati class. This article explores how Song Dynasty literati paintings used symbolic symbols to construct the spiritu...

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This paper probes into the intricate nexus between freedom and benevolence within Liberal Confucianism, a prominent intellectual current in the epoch of globalization. Through an exploration of how these two core values are construed and interlinked within the context of Liberal Confucianism, our ob...

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Classical Chinese thought slowly formed from the 9th century BCE onward through the Spring and Autumn era but reached its pivotal point during the so-called Warring States era (5th to 2nd centuries BCE). According to historical records, during these three hundred years more than four hundred wars of...

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This paper examines Ira E. Kasoff’s systemic interpretation of Chang Tsai’s Neo-Confucianism in his <i>The Thought of Chang Tsai (1020–1077)</i>, focusing on Kasoff’s reconstruction of Ch’i (<i>qi</i>, 气) as the ontological foundation of Chang’s philosophy. Through a trichoto...

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The Chinese Overseas form what one estimates to be the world's wealthiest diaspora. They progressively settled throughout the world for more than fifteen centuries, a migratory phenomenon still unmatched. The causes of this exodus, for exodus applies if one speaks about diaspora, plunge in the...

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The article discusses political meritocracy phenomenon. The author examines political and economic backgrounds of the meritocracy concept occurrence within the political science discourse as well as distinctive features of that process. Special emphasis is put on economic situation of the early 1980...

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<p>This study examines the effect on Korean public employees’ in-role performance and organizational performance of Confucian values and of two organizational management values developed in the West, specifically collective public service motivation-oriented (PSMO) management values and entrep...

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The article deals with the theoretical treatises written by Kang Youwei (1858 — 1927) in exile and devoted to the understanding of Western social and political reality from the standpoint of a bearer of traditional Chinese culture and Neo-Confucian philosophy. First of all, these are “Travelogue to...

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The influence of Confucian ideas on intellectual life in Russia of the XVIII century has not been studied enough and needs more detailed research. This paper is about the research of text “Description of life of Confucius, head of Chinese philosophers”. The purpose of the article is to identify the...

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The Confucian hermeneutic approach to the <i>Yijing</i> 易經 (or <i>Book of Changes</i>) delineates a transition from the pursuit of divinatory meaning to the cultivation of virtue and action. As an integral part of the <i>Yijing</i>’s semantic framework, decisive p...

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This article presents a comparative analysis of two translations of the Confucian text “Da-xue,” undertaken by prominent Russian sinologists N. Ya. Bichurin and D. P. Sivillov in the 19th century. The aim of the study is to juxtapose the scholars’ approaches to translating and interpreting this clas...

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The government policy of the New Order era (1966-1998), which required uniformity in religious practices and had implications for the emergence of the Tridharma house of worship, significantly affected the religious practices of the Chinese community in various regions of Indonesia, creating a disti...

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It remains highly relevant to analyze international relations with a special emphasis not only on the political, but also on the cultural dimension of the «East-West» dichotomy. If we need to maintain control over the process of intercultural communication, it needs to be reconsidered from a philoso...

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This paper presents Confucius’ pedagogical ideas through the analysis and interpretation of his dialogues collected in the Analects. The focus is on key concepts of Confucianism, such as ren (humaneness, benevolence/kindness), junzi (the noble, ideal, exemplary person), dao (the way/path), and li (r...

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Walter Henry Medhurst’s translation of <i>The Shoo King</i> (尚書/書經) represents the first complete English rendering of this classic Chinese text. However, limited attention has been given to how Medhurst navigated the tension between Confucian thought in <i>The Shoo King</i>...

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Chinahas altered its global posture from “keeping a low profile” to “striving for achievement” since President Xi came to power. The adjusted approach to Chinese foreign policy is in the context of growing China’s state capabilities and shrinking American global leadership under Trump’s presidency....

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