Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought
by Wei-Ming Tu
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This first paperback edition of a classic text includes a new introductory essay on "Tu Wei-ming's Confucianism," by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of the School of Theology at Boston University, and a new preface by the author. The 12 essays in this volume concisely illustrate the inherent "religiousness" of Confucianism, one of the most influential systems of thought on earth. Through an intensive focus on the Confucian process of self-cultivation, noted author and teacher Tu Wei-ming show more aggressively explores the spiritual dimension of this tradition. show lessTags
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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 society in the West, as well as in East Asia. His show more 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
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