To the Confucian, `` virtue '' simply meant mastery and correct observance of three hundred major rules of ritual and three thousand minor ones.

Unlike many other major civilizations where written law was held in honor and often attributed to divine origin, law in early China was viewed in purely secular terms and its initial appearance was greeted with hostility by Confucian thinkers as indicative of a serious moral decline, a violation of human morality, and even a disturbance of the total cosmic order.

During his reign, he reinforced Korean Confucian policies and executed major legal amendments (; ).

However, both ancient and modern Confucian observers of Chinese politics have argued that some Legalist ideas have merged with mainstream Confucianism and still play a major role in government.

As Arai Hakuseki, a major Confucian poet and politician of the time wrote, " All the Rōjū did was to pass on his < nowiki ></ nowiki > instructions " ( Sansom 141 ).

The suggestion that a set of ' Asian values ' operated throughout the Asian region, or even just in East Asia, contradicts what we know about the presence of long-standing religious ( Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, and Christian ) and other divisions in the region, and of the major social and cultural transformation that has been underway, especially in the last decade or so.

The Korean Confucian curriculum of 13 to 15 major works, and exegetical commentary was extensive.

Culturally, the arts still maintain major traditions: Korean pottery, the Korean tea ceremony, Korean gardens, and Korean flower arrangement follow Confucian principles and a Confucian aesthetic.

Xiong Shili (, 1885 — May 23, 1968 ) was a modern Chinese philosopher whose major work A New Treatise on Consciousness-only ( 新唯識論, Xin Weishi Lun ) is a Confucian critique of the Buddhist " consciousness-only " theory popularized in China by the Tang Dynasty pilgrim Xuanzang.

Zhou Dunyi was a major influence on Zhu Xi, who was considered one of the greatest Confucian thinkers since Confucius himself.

In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics ; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory.

Core concepts are: ( 1 ) That critical social theory should be directed at the totality of society in its historical specificity ( i. e. how it came to be configured at a specific point in time ), and ( 2 ) That critical theory should improve understanding of society by integrating all the major social sciences, including geography, economics, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and psychology.

This work resulted in their jointly authored publication Incomes from Independent Professional Practice, which introduced the concepts of permanent and transitory income, a major component of the Permanent Income Hypothesis that Friedman worked out in greater detail in the 1950s.

Most importantly, the Marvel Universe also incorporates examples of almost all major science fiction and fantasy concepts, with writers adding more continuously.

: Note: the Theory column below contains links to articles with infoboxes at the top of their respective pages which list the major concepts.

Thus, evidence of major changes in religious concepts may be recorded only in fragments of myths that supersede and later, obscure the originals.

* Kinship and descent, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology

The OSI reference model was a major advance in the teaching of network concepts.

When the above concepts are considered simultaneously, fifteen evaluation approaches can be identified in terms of epistemology, major perspective ( from House ), and orientation.

It has also been pointed out that the concepts of " finding ", " music ", " love ", and " ardour "— the precise semantic field attached to the word troubadour — are allied in Arabic under a single root ( WJD ) that plays a major role in Sufic discussions of music, and that the word troubadour may in part reflect this.

The concepts of such a control system remain in use on every major video game console produced today, even with fewer " cartridge-based " consoles on the market than in the 8 / 16-bit era.

A major difference between US GAAP and IFRS is the fact that three fundamentally different concepts of capital and capital maintenance are authorized in IFRS while US GAAP only authorize two capital and capital maintenance concepts during low inflation and deflation: ( 1 ) physical capital maintenance and ( 2 ) financial capital maintenance in nominal monetary units ( traditional Historical Cost Accounting ) as stated in Par 45 to 48 in the FASB Conceptual Satement Nº 5.

Biology primarily attempts to explain major concepts of stress in a stimulus-response manner, much like how a psychobiological sensory system operates.

While specific values differ, the concepts in this article generalize to any major planet.

The experience Xenakis gained played a major role in his music: important early compositions such as Metastaseis B ( 1953 – 4, also known as Metastasis ) were based directly on architectural concepts.

The major critique of concepts such as information society, knowledge society, network society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, etc.

A major problem within intentionality discourse is that participants often fail to make explicit whether or not they use the term to imply concepts such as agency or desire, i. e. whether it involves teleology.

Otherwise the major design work is rumoured to have been done by German car designer Luigi Colani, who also did design concepts for BMW's motorcycle division in the late 1970s.

# The Genesis According to Spiritism — Tries to reconcile religion and science, dealing with the three major points of friction between the two: the origin of the universe ( and of life, as a consequence ) and the concepts of miracle and premonition.

Monch, now signed to a major label, still insists that, if a reunion were to take place, the record would be released on an independent label, citing that the high-end concepts Organized Konfusion deals with and tackles aren't heavily supported by major labels.

Kalidasa, who was a great playwright, who wrote plays such as Shakuntala, which is said to have inspired Goethe, and marked the highest point of Sanskrit literature is also said to have belonged to this period. The famous Sushruta Samhita, which is a Sanskrit redaction text on all of the major concepts of ayurvedic medicine with innovative chapters on surgery, dates to the Gupta period.

The foundational concepts are found in Greenleaf ’ s first three major essays, " The Servant as Leader ", " The Institution as Servant ", and " Trustees as Servants.

The latter jobs include major management responsibilities and have been filled by those who have come up primarily through the engineering-management side.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Former major monopolies in Armenia include:

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

Commonly-used test numbers for major carriers include:

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

Mainboard designs had improved considerably by this time, and the initial trickle of Athlon mainboard makers had swollen to include every major manufacturer.

They include the major rivers of north Europe, such as the Oder, the Vistula, the Neman, the Daugava and the Neva.

Other major cities include Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond, Delta, and New Westminster in the Lower Mainland ; Abbotsford, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Langley in the Fraser Valley ; Nanaimo on Vancouver Island ; and Kelowna and Kamloops in the Interior.

Initially, the plan was also to include a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals.

Other former Baltimore announcers include Josh Lewin ( currently with New York Mets ), Bill O ' Donnell, Tom Marr, Scott Garceau, Mel Proctor, Michael Reghi, former major league catcher Buck Martinez, and former Oriole players including Brooks Robinson, pitcher Mike Flanagan and outfielder John Lowenstein.

Other major rivers include the Mahakam in East Kalimantan (, the Barito in South Kalimantan (), and Rajang in Sarawak ()).

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Some major hot cooking techniques include:

Natural resources include fish and a climate and beaches that foster tourism, which is the islands ' major industry.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

In major modern economies such as those of the United States or the Euro Zone, most money is electronic, but the " currency " of these polities may, depending on context, include all money or just specie ( i. e., various physical representations of money ).

The other major contributions of the Qin include the concept of a centralized government, the unification of the legal code, development of the written language, measurement, and currency of China after the tribulations of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

* Business leaders which include successful entrepreneurs, financially successful investors, and top level CEO's of major corporations that regularly dominate the global business scene, top the daily business headlines and coverage of financial markets have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Other chemists who brought major contributions to organic chemistry include Alexander William Williamson with his synthesis of ethers and Christopher Kelk Ingold, who, among many discoveries, established the mechanisms of substitution reactions.