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On the Model of Zhou Dunyi's Personality

Zhou Zhong-sheng

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To create ideal personality is a typical basic spirit of Chinese philosophy.As the king of Neo-Confucianism, Zhou Dunyi has laid a foundation of an ideal personality of the Song and Ming Dynasties with his thinking and analyzing, and with his appreciation of the beauty. On the terms of benefit and meaning, he showed the overcoming of a person's perceptual desire; on the terms of components of personality model, he took HONEST as origin, and sought the inter moral consciousness and the outer independent will. As for ideological history, the importance of personality model lies in the content of spurring wise men into common people and initiating a realistic personality.

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To create ideal personality is a typical basic spirit of Chinese philosophy.As the king of Neo-Confucianism, Zhou Dunyi has laid a foundation of an ideal personality of the Song and Ming Dynasties with his thinking and analyzing, and with his appreciation of the beauty. On the terms of benefit and meaning, he showed the overcoming of a person's perceptual desire; on the terms of components of personality model, he took HONEST as origin, and sought the inter moral consciousness and the outer independent will. As for ideological history, the importance of personality model lies in the content of spurring wise men into common people and initiating a realistic personality.

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To create ideal personality is a typical basic spirit of Chinese philosophy.As the king of Neo-Confucianism, Zhou Dunyi has laid a foundation of an ideal personality of the Song and Ming Dynasties with his thinking and analyzing, and with his appreciation of the beauty. On the terms of benefit and meaning, he showed the overcoming of a person's perceptual desire; on the terms of components of personality model, he took HONEST as origin, and sought the inter moral consciousness and the outer independent will. As for ideological history, the importance of personality model lies in the content of spurring wise men into common people and initiating a realistic personality.

Key concepts: Personality, Ideology, Ideal (ethics), Beauty, Meaning (existential), Consciousness, Psychology, Social psychology

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