Civilizing Humans with Shame: How Early Confucians Altered Inherited Evolutionary Norms through Cultural Programming to Increase Social Harmony
To say Early Confucians advocated the possession of a sense of shame as a means to moral virtue underestimates the tact and forethought they used successfully to mold natural dispositions to experience shame into a system of self, familial, and social governance. Shame represents an adaptive system...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 15, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 254-284 |
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China
co-evolution
Confucianism
cultural transmission
morality
shame
social organisation
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