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Key Takeaway: The Great Learning presents a step-by-step framework for personal and political cultivation, tracing the path from individual self-cultivation to world peace.
The Great Learning presents a step-by-step framework for personal and political cultivation, tracing the path from individual self-cultivation to world peace. Its core sequence — investigating things, extending knowledge, making the will sincere, rectifying the mind, cultivating the self, regulating the family, ordering the state, and bringing peace to the world — became the foundational curriculum for Chinese education and governance for over 700 years after Zhu Xi (朱熹) elevated it to canonical status during the Song dynasty. • Is this not a pleasure? • Ask closely. Reflect near at hand.
As Confucius taught in the Analects and as the Confucian tradition of virtue and self-cultivation holds, The Great Learning presents a step-by-step framework for personal and political cultivation, tracing the path from individual self-cultivation to world peace.
— Oriens
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great learning self cultivation
The Great Learning presents a step-by-step framework for personal and political cultivation, tracing the path from individual self-cultivation to world peace..