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Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation

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Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the cultural foundation and philosophical ethos for education have a strong and historically effective tradition stretching back to antiquity in the classical ‘cradle’ civilizations of China and East Asia, India and Pakistan, Greece and Anatolia, focussed on the cultural traditions in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in the East and Hellenistic philosophy in the West.

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    This introduction draws on aspects of ‘Educational philosophies of self-cultivation: Chinese Humanism’, Peters (2020)

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Peters, M.A., Zhang, H., Besley, T. (2021). Pedagogies and Philosophies of Self-cultivation. In: Peters, M.A., Besley, T., Zhang, H. (eds) Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation. East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8027-3_1

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