confucian
IPA: kʌnfjˈuʃʌn
Root Word: Confucian
noun
- One who follows the teachings of Confucius.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or conforming to the teachings of Confucius.
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Examples of "confucian" in Sentences
- It is the set of Confucian protocols.
- Confucianism is also prevalent in the HKSAR.
- The man is studying Confucian in university.
- He was studious in his studies of Confucianism.
- The culture of Korean dynasties is Confucianism.
- He was a member of the Confucian Society of China.
- They believe in the ways of confucianism and Disco fever.
- I think this quotation is at the heart of the Confucianism.
- He is reputedly the last Mandarin bureaucrat in the Confucian tradition.
- The tradition of Confucianism emphasized the use of eloquence in speaking.
- I consider this default a flaw against the universal and confucian value of "xin" or "trust".
- The French version also has a confucian-esque quality to it, which is not really stereotypical for them!
- We'll probably end up with a confucian governing elite overseeing a roiling, third world underclass in the suburbs and with a sprinkling of
- The end effect ofg that will be those dead tibetan holy people will only reincarnate here in the West, and will destroy china and return her to her Buddhist anc confucian roots.
- Under the wise guidance of a Yoda-like confucian scholar hidden in the basement of a Korean bar the military leader of the rebellion, Haerin, is a bar waitress, Sakamoto learns the true history of the Korean nation.
- Ogyū argues for an emphasis on compassion in human affairs, for reorganization of political affairs on more rational lines he proposes centralization of power under the Shogun, but then he was working for the Shogun at the time, and a rather un-confucian separation of public and private virtue.
- The cultural DNA in which Chiang was immersed in had much more in the way of dynastic and confucian philosophy and tradition--and certainly more emphasis on the agrarian rather than industrial--than anything resembling Adam Smith or David Hume, to whom we might trace some of our political heritage.
- Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation. got past the theoretical half and now in the applied section. way less boring. the first half about the framework around fiqh wasn't too surprising, i've read similar stuff when learning about the nature of talmudic scholarship, and some of the neo-confucian interpretations are very similar. next post/next comment