neo-Confucianadj.n.

1903 K. Okakura Ideals of East 166 The Neo-Confucian influence of China..was an amalgamation of Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian thought.

1935 Mind 44 405 A serious lacuna at the end of the book is the failure to show the origins out of which the Neo-Confucian philosophy..first arose.

1948 Mind 57 535 Dr. Fung..does not, like many Chinese and most Occidental expositors, make Confucius teach medieval Neo-Confucian doctrine.

1974 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 34 215 It would appear to reflect an equation of intelligence, strongly Neo-Confucian in tone, with man's innate ability to distinguish right from wrong.

1999 Britannica Online (Version 99.1) at Neo-Confucianism In the Neo-Confucian view, harmony was maintained by a reciprocal relationship of justice between a superior, who was urged to be benevolent, and a subordinate, who was urged to be obedient and to observe propriety.

1903 K. Okakura Ideals of East 166 The later Chinese minds, as represented by the Neo-Confucians..approached the problem from a subjective and idealistic standpoint.

1942 D. D. Runes Dict. Philos. 168/1 To the Neo-Confucians.., Reason is the rational principle of existence whereas the vital force (ch'i) is the material principle.

1975 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 35 137 It is necessary to describe in some detail the attitude of Chinese Neo-Confucians both to the problem of ritual and to the prohibition.

1997 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 56 615 The influential Song dynasty Neo-Confucian Cheng Yi had made the antithesis explicit by demanding that widows choose death over remarriage, and widow-chastity would be advocated by the School of the Way..Neo-Confucians who rose to power by the late Yuan.