Self-Cultivation is the starting point of several steps moving outward. The next
step is managing family affairs, followed by governing the state. The final step
is moving to provide peace and sound governance to all under heaven. This
process is a fundamental theme in Confucian moral philosophy and discourse
on politics. It is a gradually expanding process beginning with the individual
and emanating outward into serving and benefiting an ever-larger whole. In
such a process an individual's virtue and self-improvement are inseparable from
his political aspirations.
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