[Revised entry by Justin Tiwald on April 30, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Confucian thought in China’s Song (960 – 1279 CE), Yuan (1279 – 1368 CE), and Ming (1368 – 1644 CE) dynasties is marked by concerted efforts to weave the ideas expressed in traditional Confucian texts into more coherent and theoretical worldviews, and to make more explicit what its advocates and practitioners take to be the Confucian tradition’s metaphysics and moral psychology, and to refute and curtail the influence of Buddhism and Daoism. Many anthologies and histories of Chinese…

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