The Confucian Concept of Learning

Duck-Joo Kwak is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Seoul National University, Korea. She is the author of Education for Self-transformation: Essay as an Educational Practice (2011) and numerous articles on values education and teacher education. Morimichi Kato is Professor of Philosophy of the Faculty of Human Sciences at Sophia University, Japan. He has a long-standing interest in the history of Platonism and humanism in the West, and has written extensively on Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Renaissance philosophers, Heidegger, Charles Taylor and Gianni Vattimo. Ruyu Hung is Professor of Philosophy of Education at National Chiayi University, Taiwan. She is the author of Leaning Nature (2010), Education between Speech and Writing: Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction (2017) and many other philosophical and educational articles.

Introduction: The Confucian Concept of Learning Revisited for East Asian Humanistic Pedagogies 1. Ethics of Learning and Self-knowledge: Two cases in the Socratic and Confucian teachings 2. Humanistic Traditions, East and West: Convergence and divergence 3. ‘‘The Source of Learning is Thought’’ Reading the Chin-ssu lu with a ‘‘Western Eye’’ 4. A Theory of Learning in Confucian Perspective 5. The Corporeality of Learning: Confucian Education in Early Modern Japan 6. Lixue, the Lost Art: Confucianism as a form of cultivation of mind 7. A Critique of Confucian Learning: On Learners and Knowledge 8. Two Concerns of the Confucian Learner 9. Modern Versus Tradition: Are there two different approaches to reading of the Confucian classics?