Tu Wei-Ming
Author of Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation
About the Author
Receiving his graduate training at Harvard University, Tu Wei-ming has spent most of his academic career as a professor in the United States. His basic philosophical position has been to argue for a Confucian-based humanism as a response to the alienation, nihilism, and mechanization of modern show more society in the West, as well as in East Asia. His essays are collected in such books as Centrality and Commonality (1989), Humanity and Self-Cultivation, and Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation (1985). In each case, he draws on the classical Confucian tradition, adapting its message in creative ways to argue toward a revision of personhood in today's society. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Tu Wei-Ming
Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons (1996) 16 copies
The Confucian World Observed: A Contemporary Discussion of Confucian Humanism in East Asia (1992) 6 copies
New horizons in Eastern humanism Buddhism, Confucianism and the quest for global peace (2011) 5 copies
Associated Works
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1940-02-26
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Tunghai University (BA - Chinese Studies)
Harvard University (PhD - History and East Asian Languages) - Occupations
- professor
- Organizations
- Harvard University (Chair, Committee on the Study of Religion)
Peking University
Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley - Nationality
- China (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
- Associated Place (for map)
- Yunnan Province, China
Members
Reviews
No reviews found.
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 19
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 144
- Popularity
- #143,280
- Rating
- 4.2
- ISBNs
- 38
- Languages
- 1