On the other hand, the Chinese students listed communal definitions of happiness focused on shaping the self, such as self-cultivation, mind-work and positive evaluations of the self by others.
He portrayed higher education as the disinterested pursuit of truth, and the cultivation of the mind.
The cultivation of the mind, religious conversion, and other routes are each tried but then dismissed.
Anger conflicts with sociability and it is only by due cultivation of the mind that our sociability can be fortified and enhanced.
Carmichael criticises Pufendorf for paying too little attention to the subject of cultivation of the mind, and indicates some features that might profitably have been considered by Pufendorf, for example the following.
Due cultivation of the mind involves filling it with sound opinion regarding our duty, learning to judge well the objects which commonly stimulate our desires, and acquiring rational control of our passions.
Kant also offers a typology of the various fine arts (§51) and a comparison of their respective aesthetic value (§53), with poetry at the top and music — at least as far as the "cultivation of the mind" is concerned — at the bottom.
The point of this discussion of Fung's study is his argument that, ever since the disappearance of the "nature" tendency, Chinese philosophy has devoted itself to the cultivation of the mind (xin 心), at the expense of any interest in, or need for, science, or any inquiry into nature.
However, the central principle underlying the Utopians' way of life is that as much time as possible should be reserved for the cultivation of the mind, as it is in this that they consider true happiness can be found (CU: 135).
"Meditation is not relaxation; it is mind cultivation.
Originally an agricultural town, today the cultivation of the mind is Columbia's chief economic concern.
