@inbook{85b7ffa5816b4e999a2c1d7933ba4b15,
title = "Moral psychology and cultivating the self",
abstract = "This chapter offers a selection of writings concerning Zhu Xi{\textquoteright}s account of the psychological workings of human beings that explains how their nature (xing性), heart-mind (xin心), and the feelings (qing情) are integrated with one another. It also includes material that addresses Zhu{\textquoteright}s naturalistic explanation of moral capacity of humans and the proper course and method of self-cultivation. Zhu{\textquoteright}s moral psychology presents a “synthesis” of the various cosmological and ethical ideas forwarded by his Northern Song neo-Confucian predecessors. He argued that by conceptualizing and embodying the all-pervading pattern-principle of things in the world one achieved integrity and unity in one{\textquoteright}s own person, thereby fully realizing one{\textquoteright}s humanity.",
keywords = "nature, heart-mind, feelings, desires, learning, meditation",
author = "Curie Virag",
year = "2019",
month = oct,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1093/oso/9780190861254.003.0003",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780190861261",
series = "Oxford Chinese Thought",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "35--55",
editor = "Ivanhoe, {Philip J. }",
booktitle = "Zhu Xi",
}