From Sacred Doctrine to Confucian Moral Practice: Giulio Aleni’s Cross-Cultural Interpretation of “Goodness and Evil of Human Nature”
This paper explores the cross-cultural interpretation of “the goodness and evil of human nature” by Jesuit missionary Giulio Aleni in the late Ming Dynasty, and it examines the intersections and complementarity between Catholicism and Confucianism in moral ethics based on Aleni’s integration. The st...
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2024
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Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 8 |
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Human Nature
B Moral Practice B goodness and evil B Giulio Aleni B Neo-confucianism |
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