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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Main Author: Nichols, Ryan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 15, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 254-284
Further subjects:B China co-evolution Confucianism cultural transmission morality shame social organisation
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