How did neo-confucianism respond to the changes of late Ming society?
Title: How did neo-confucianism respond to the changes of late Ming society?
Category: /History/Asian History
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How did neo-confucianism respond to the changes of late Ming society?
Category: /History/Asian History
Details: Words: 2033 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ming society from the late sixteenth to the mid seventeenth century was a
society in the grips of profound economic, social and political changes. It
is always easy to look back on a period, view the big picture and label it
as a period of upheaval. But records left show that even contemporaries
recognised the ferment they were living through. With such all-encompassing
and intense changes, it was perhaps inevitable that the tradition of
morals,
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insecurity and disorientation as the people of the Ming must have felt.
Today, psychology-babbling gurus have cashed in. In the 16th and 17th
century, the neo-confucians cashed in. Seeing a people in need of guidance,
they picked out those elements of their teachings which would be
comprehensible and relevant and expanded them into a new ideology to suit
the times. Neo-confucianism in the late Ming was less a faith than a
secular counselling service.