1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452342103321

Autore

Chang Chi Yun

Titolo

Confucianism [[electronic resource] ] : a modern interpretation / / Chi Yun Chang ; translated by Orient Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

1-299-46267-7

981-4439-88-6

Edizione

[2012 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (508 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeeOrient

Disciplina

299.512

Soggetti

Confucianism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

About the Authors; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Confucius Was Great; 1.1 His Great Personality; 1.2 His Humanism; 1.3 First Democratic Educator; 1.4 An Accomplished Philosophical Man; 1.5 Inauguration of a New Era; 1.6 The Four Steps; 1.7 Aim at the Dao; 1. Between Heaven's way and man's way; 2. Between mind and matter; 3. Between knowledge and action; 1.8 Build up a Base with Virtue; 1.9 Rely on Ren; 1.10 Relax in the Arts; 1.11 Man's Mind, Nature, and Sentiments; 1.12 Learning, Knowledge, Intuition; 1.13 Action; 1.14 Have a Sincere Will; 1.15 Happiness in the Dao; 1.16 The Middle Way

1. Zhong-zheng (中正), the right place2. Zhong-he (中和), the right mood; 3. Zhong-yong, the right application; 4. Zhong-xing (中行), the right attitude; 5. Shi-zhong (时中), the right timing; 1.17 To Be a Sage Inside and a King Outside; 1.18 People Are Masters; 1. Nationality; 2. Democracy; 3. Social welfare; 1.19 Confucianism and the Idea of Revolution; 1.20 Great Harmony; 1.21 Lineage of Confucianism; 1.22 A Confucianist Century for the World; Chapter 2 Philosophy of Life; 2.1 A Humanist Philosophy; 2.2 Ren, a Concept Created by Confucius

2.3 Righteousness: Its Relationships with Ren, with Courage, with the Li, etc.2.4 Filial Devotion; 2.5 Trustworthiness; 2.6 Loyalty and Empathy; 2.7 Public Spirit and Straightforwardness; 2.8 Respect and Sincerity; 2.9 Calmness and Firmness; 2.10 Thrift, Modesty, and Willingness to Yield; 2.11 Seeing a Man's Merit Through His Faults; 2.12



Overcoming One's Self in Order to Get Back to the Li; Chapter 3 Philosophy of Education; 3.1 The Goal of Education; 1. Morality; 2. Balanced intellect; 3. Self-cultivation; 4. Spiritual fulfillment; 3.2 The Systems of Education; 1. It was non-governmental

2. It was a fully-fledged college3. It was practical; 4. It was non-discriminatory; 3.3 Equality of Opportunity in Education, a New Trend in the 20th Century; 3.4 National Homogeneity Through Education; 3.5 Upholding Man's Virtuous Nature; 3.6 Learning about the Dao Through Inquiry and Practice; 3.7 Grasping the Vast and Big; 3.8 Exhausting the Subtle and Abstruse; 1. Silent absorption; 2. Ge the things; 3. Act with vigor; 4. Behaving and thinking cautiously when alone; 3.9 Textbooks and Curricula; 3.10 Methods of Instruction; 1. Exercise and practice; 2. Doubting and believing

3. Using the correct names4. Seeing unity in duality; 5. Enlightenment; 6. Learning to be objective; 7. Teaching the students individually; 3.11 The Way of a Teacher; 1. Remaining a student after becoming a teacher; 2. Learning through teaching; 3. Silent teaching; 4. Dedication; 3.12 Friends as Teachers; 3.13 Giving Education to More People; 1. Giving education to children; 2. Giving education to women; 3. Giving education to the people in general; 3.14 Character-Building; Chapter 4 Political Philosophy; 4.1 The People Are Important; 4.2 Heaven's Mandate Is Revocable

4.3 Notions of Liberty and Equality

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the Magnum Opus dedicated to Mr Chi Yun Chang, a prominent historian as well as the founder of Chinese Culture University. This book illustrates the six elements of Confucius' teachings: Philosophy of Life Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Creation, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Providence and Philosophy of Peace.The book explains the value and significance of Confucius' teachings and also focuses on the modernization of the teachings. It ascertains that "to understand Confucius is to understand China, the Chinese people, Chinese history and Chinese culture". Th



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910662517603321

Titolo

Authority and control in modern industry : theoretical and empirical perspectives / / edited by Paul L. Robertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

0-429-23170-9

1-282-77846-3

9786612778469

1-134-82730-X

0-203-43540-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; ; 10

Altri autori (Persone)

RobertsonPaul L

Disciplina

338.6/09

Soggetti

Industrial management - History

Industrial management

Labor - History

Labor

Industrial organization - History

Industrial organization

Industrial revolution

Authority

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The rise of the factory system in Britain: efficiency or exploitation?; The coevolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system; Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises; Knowledge, information and organisational structures; Technological change, transaction costs, and the industrial organisation of cotton production in the US South, 1950_1970

The maintenance of professional authority: the case of physicians and hospitals in the United StatesMen and monotony: fraternalism as a



managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company; Management and labour in German chemical companies before World War One; Buddenbrooks revisited: the firm and the entrepreneurial family in Germany during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation and includes contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan.