Matteo Ricci's teaching on the goodness of human nature: its Thomistic and neo‐Confucian sources
The Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci's teaching on the goodness of human nature in The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven represents the fruit of the first encounter between Catholicism and Confucianism. This article will consider the Thomistic and neo‐Confucian sources in Ricci's enunciatio...
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