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Pedagogies that are based on the ethics of self-cultivation and seek a transformation of the self in terms of virtue, happiness and ‘living well’ are one of the underlying pillars of humanistic philosophy and wisdom traditions in both the East and West. Pedagogical philosophies of self-cultivation have been both the moral foundation and cultural ethos for education within antiquity. The classical ‘cradle’ civilizations of China and East Asia, India and Pakistan, Greece and Anatolia, focused on the cultural traditions in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in the East and diverse forms Hellenistic philosophy in the West, including Platonism, Pyrrhonism, Epicureanism, Cynicism and Stoicism.
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NZ granted the Whanganui River legal personhood in 2017 to protect it, thus recognizing environmental features as well as persons. Local iwi (Maori tribe) have a relationship with this 290 k river that stretches from Mount Tongariro to the Tasman Sea, for nearly 900 years, regarding it as a tupuna or ancestor.
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Peters, M.A. (2021). Postscript. 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_18
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