id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6608 New Confucianism - Wikipedia .html text/html 3803 618 56 It is a neo-conservative movement of various Chinese traditions and has been regarded as containing religious overtones; it advocates for certain Confucianist elements of society – such as social, ecological, and political harmony – to be applied in a contemporary context in synthesis with Western philosophies such as rationalism and humanism.[1] Its philosophies have emerged as a focal point of discussion between Confucian scholars in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States. Borrowing from the school of Wang Yangming, Xiong developed a metaphysical system for the new Confucian movement and believed Chinese learning was superior to Western learning. After the events of the May Fourth Movement in 1919, in which Confucianism was blamed for China's weakness and decline in the face of Western aggression, a major Chinese philosopher of the time, Xiong Shili (1885–1968), established and re-constructed Confucianism as a response.[5] New Confucianism is a political, ethical, and social philosophy using metaphysical ideas from both Western Philosophy and Eastern. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6608.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6608.txt