Reign King Yeongjo was a deeply Confucian monarch, and is said to have had a greater knowledge of the classics than his officials.

Indianapolis, Literary Classics 5, 1987.

Keynes versus the Classics Round Two

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The classics were, Hey stupid, Hey spaz.

Many Confucian emperors were brutal.

Today, new Confucian leftists such as Gan Yang are calling for the creation of a Confucian socialist republic.

1970 reprinted in European Classics of Political Science Series, Colchester.

In imperial China, this meant Confucian orthodoxy.

The ideal of the Confucian state is harmony.

So, just as a Confucian son s absolute duty is to revere his father, the absolute duty of a Confucian subject is to revere the ruler.

Applied learning is the key to the post Confucian states success.

Of course, the Neo Confucian system was not immune to mankind s appetites.

It was thought that the classics provided moral instruction and an intensive understanding of human behavior.

Thereafter, a good Confucian could, with untroubled conscience, scorn the Buddhist renunciation of the world.

Confucian civic culture also provided the basis for a long history of successful self government.

In a similar vein, the Confucian tradition has long emphasized the value of political meritocracy.

Son of professor Max Fränkel and younger brother of de Charlotte Fränkel, Fränkel studied classics at Berlin, Bonn and Göttingen.

Early Confucian thinkers were writing in a world of small countries competing ruthlessly for territorial advantage.

In 1584 he was offered sacrifice in the Confucian Temple, the highest honour for a scholar.

Such concrete proposals for political reform inspired by Confucian values can rarely be published in mainland China.

This is why a key Confucian principle holds that one cannot rule the state without exercising discipline over oneself.

Confucian literati, shunning manual labor, grew their fingernails long, but they never displayed antipathy towards the world of affairs.

It is the 14th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Radio Pictures.

The absence of no money down mortgages might be more important than Confucian ethics in explaining China s high savings rate.

The largely Catholic Philippines, Buddhist Thailand, and Confucian Singapore lag behind Indonesia in providing basic democratic rights to their people.

During the past century, the post Confucian states have accustomed themselves to a pluralistic world of theoretically equal nation states.

The more Royal returns to the classics of the Socialist Party, and the more Sarkozy openly courts the extreme right, the more Bayrou s popularity rises.

Between 1939 and 1966 he recorded almost 600 songs, many of which are classics of Finnish popular music, and appeared in many films and theatrical productions.

As one Confucian classic put it Possessing virtue will give the ruler the people. Possessing the people will give him the territory.

Like a happy and secure childhood, Confucian civilization bestowed upon its practitioners the self confidence to meet the challenge of the West.

There is also a boom in pollution and toxic waste, and booming interest in religion from Buddhism to Pentecostal Christianity and in Confucian philosophy.

The results from this study led Hofstede to add a new fifth dimension to his model long term orientation (LTO) initially called Confucian dynamism.

During the neo Confucian renaissance of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a metaphysical dimension was added to fill a gap exposed by Buddhism s inroads into China.

The House of Scientists ( Dom Uchyonykh ), a social center of Akademgorodok, hosts a library containing 100,000 volumes Russian classics, modern literature and also many American, British, French, German, Polish books and magazines.

This trend changed under the guidance of Dr. William Leroy Broun, who taught classics and sciences and believed both disciplines were important in the overall growth of the university and the individual.

Like Japan and other Asian countries, Korean society, which is underpinned by Confucian thought, has experienced little political participation by women, though that appears to be changing rapidly.

According to early Confucian thinkers, a key task for rulers is to strive to improve a peoples happiness, which is itself grounded in a moral way of life.

Along with contact between Arabs and Europeans during the Crusades (with the essential recovery of ancient Greek written classics), the widespread use of paper aided the foundation of the Scholastic Age in Europe.

An imperial order in 1890 outlined the objectives of education the Confucian concepts of loyalty, obedience, and filial piety were to be transferred from the family to the nation.

This Confucian tradition aims to influence contemporary politics, but it also remains separate from state power and orthodoxy, always ready to point to the gap between ideals and reality.

Other Confucian societies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, now have thriving liberal democracies, and there is no reason to believe that such a transition is impossible in China.

Confucianism s tenets still provide an inner compass to most East Asians in a post Confucian age, just as Biblical admonitions remain standards for the West in a post religious age.

The argument for Dylan would rest squarely on the quality and influence of his work over the years, and the fact that they have now become classics of modern poetry, decades after they were first composed.

One reason why a dynastic succession is taking place is that Kim Il sung created a national ideology, Juche, which mixes communism and autarky with a heavy dose of Confucian values.