Explain Neo-Confucianism to me

>>1712483
wait, that's a thing?

+2 tolerance to heretics

>>1712483
I sense that you are the same guy who posted to have Buddhism explained to you, and you do not want to do your Comparative Religion homework.

Much like Platonism.

>>1712483
Take Confucianism and base its authority on a metaphysical version of itself.

>>1712524
Fuck you

>>1712578
Explain

>>1712664
Confucianism is no longer justified by its effectiveness, but now because it is the proper way the Earth is to be arranged to bring it into harmony with the Heavens.

Confucian ethics, Buddhist Metaphysics, Taoist Cosmology

>>1712483
neo confucianism was just like the transition between the age of myth and the bronze age

people became increasingly sophisticated in their understanding of natural phenomena, which allowed them to refine which parts of confucianism were groundless, and which ones weren't.

neo-confucianists described phenomena such as evolution, orwell's concept of newspeak, price equilibriums, and the theoretical technological singularity in the 1200's (although to be fair plato describes natural selection.)

>>1712678
So neo-confucianism is a religion?

>>1712483
Neo-Confucianism to Confucianism is what Wahabbism is to Islam.

Except Neo-Confucianism doesn't hate technology, doesn't condone suicide bombing or genocide of others.

It's simply fundamentalist Confucianism which focuses on key principles of piety and conservatism in ways that Confucian thinkers believe was the natural way of the world.

>>1712483
Led to retarded shit in Japan & Korea such as class freezes.