Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions. Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty - James B. Palais

152 SOCIAL REFORM cracy, and the failure of punishment and coercion to achieve moral rectification. He praised the ancient model ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 153 scholars requires that all of them be straight and pure in their natures and actions, that at hom ...

154 SOCIAL REFORM he has passed by and then bow and go on your way. If both parties are on horses, then if [the other party] is ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 155 land distribution system and maintaining low rates of taxation on scholars. It had also establish ...

156 SOCIAL REFORM behavior of individual recommendees were exposed to public view and the selec- tion procedures were open to al ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 157 reason for the aphorism that even a blind man could pass the chongsi and a/song examinations." If ...

158 SOCIAL REFORM Had Yu also had access to Edward Wagner's study of the recommendation examination by some type of time-warp co ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 159 of his insistence on personalism and subjectivism as the proper means to the evaluation of moral ...

160 SOCIAL REFORM gok had also admired. Such scholars were to function in two ways: giving advice to the king and his court or f ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS r6r great care to explain the reason for this, because ostensibly it violated an ancient ritual princ ...

I62 SOCIAL REFORM to political authority. He wanted to use the state to support Confucian educa- tion without having to acknowle ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 163 trol and auspices. 150 This formula was based obviously on the apparently para- doxical propositi ...

164 SOCIAL REFORM sponsorship and supervision and budgeting all costs against state revenues or income from school land, he hope ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 165 the inspiration for these subdistrict schools was provided more by the existing elementary school ...

166 SOCIAL REFORM sons, an increase in the number of virtuous and talented people, and a transfor- mation of customs and mores.^ ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 167 vidual actions and events to take a longer and more fundamental view of the institutions needed t ...

168 SOCIAL REFORM standards in statecraft. in which perfection was located only in antiquity, the period of the sage emperors th ...

REMOLDING THE RULING CLASS 169 Yu based his reforms not on any value-free study of methods that might achieve results without co ...

CHAPTER 5 New Schools: Conservative Restraints on Radicalism "If in some matter there should be some doubt, the students should ...

NEW SCHOOLS I71 or fourteen years), proposing that elementary schools be established in the vil- lages by the local gentry. He s ...