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Tu Wei-ming is the foremost exponent of Confucian thought in the United States today. Over the last two decades he has been developing a creative scholarly interpretation of Confucian humanism as a living tradition. The result is a work of interpretive brilliance that revitalizes Confucian thought, making it a legitimate concern of contemporary philosophical reflections.
Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation is a collection of Tu's seminal essays. It is a sustained deliberation on the substance and worth of the Confucian conception of personhood. This analysis complements Tu's highly acclaimed Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought as a continued expression of his deepening understanding of Confucianism voiced through various perennial human concerns.
Tu weaves philosophic, historical, anthropological, sociological, and psychological perspectives into a coherent discussion of the Confucian themes that continue to inspire the modern intellectual mind. His is a vital contribution to Chinese thought and religion.
"The essays in this volume present themselves as attempts at transmission and interpretation, Confucius' own self-understanding. But embodied in that task is one of the most exciting and creative philosophical projects of our time: The evocation of a world philosophy for the twentieth century from Confucian roots." — from the Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The "Moral Universal" from the Perspectives of East Asian Thought
2. The Continuity of Being: Chinese Visions of Nature
3. A Confucian Perspective on Leaning to be Human
4. The Value of the Human in Classical Confucian Thought
5. Jen as a Living Metaphor in the Confucian Analects
6. The Idea of the Human in Mencian Thought: An Approach to Chinese Aesthetics
7. Selfhood and Otherness: The Father-Son Relationship in Confucian Thought
8. Neo-Confucian Religiosity and Human-Relatedness
9. Neo-Confucian Onotology: A Preliminary Questioning
Glossary
Bibliography of Tu Wei-ming
Index