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TitleSelfhood and Fiduciary Community: A Smithian Reading of Tu Weiming’s Confucian Humanism
CreatorTsai, Yen-zen
蔡彥仁
Contributor政大宗教所
Key WordsEnlightenment;Faith;Mind-and-heart;Community;Transcendence
Date2008-12
Date Issued11-Sep-2012 16:06:49 (UTC+8)
SummaryTu Weiming, as a leading spokesman for contemporary New Confucianism, has been reinterpreting the Confucian tradition in the face of the challenges of modernity. Tu takes selfhood as his starting point, emphasizing the importance of cultivating the human mind-and-heart as a deepening and broadening process to realize the anthropocosmic dao. He highlights the concept of a “fiduciary community” and advocates that, because of it, Confucianism remains a dynamic “inclusive humanism.” Tu’s mode of thinking tallies well with Wilfred C. Smith’s vision of religion, specifically the latter’s exposition of faith as a universal human quality and proposal of “corporate critical self-consciousness.” This article details the theories of both scholars, highlights their similarities, and contrasts their differences. It argues that Smith’s world theology provides a heuristic framework through which one understands how Tu has advanced his Confucian humanism from a Chinese philosophical or cultural tradition to the midst of world religions.
RelationDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 7(4), 349-365
Typearticle
dc.contributor 政大宗教所en
dc.creator (作者) Tsai, Yen-zenen
dc.creator (作者) 蔡彥仁zh_TW
dc.date (日期) 2008-12-
dc.date.accessioned 11-Sep-2012 16:06:49 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 11-Sep-2012 16:06:49 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 11-Sep-2012 16:06:49 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/53565-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Tu Weiming, as a leading spokesman for contemporary New Confucianism, has been reinterpreting the Confucian tradition in the face of the challenges of modernity. Tu takes selfhood as his starting point, emphasizing the importance of cultivating the human mind-and-heart as a deepening and broadening process to realize the anthropocosmic dao. He highlights the concept of a “fiduciary community” and advocates that, because of it, Confucianism remains a dynamic “inclusive humanism.” Tu’s mode of thinking tallies well with Wilfred C. Smith’s vision of religion, specifically the latter’s exposition of faith as a universal human quality and proposal of “corporate critical self-consciousness.” This article details the theories of both scholars, highlights their similarities, and contrasts their differences. It argues that Smith’s world theology provides a heuristic framework through which one understands how Tu has advanced his Confucian humanism from a Chinese philosophical or cultural tradition to the midst of world religions.en
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dc.relation (關聯) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 7(4), 349-365en
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Enlightenment;Faith;Mind-and-heart;Community;Transcendenceen
dc.title (題名) Selfhood and Fiduciary Community: A Smithian Reading of Tu Weiming’s Confucian Humanismen
dc.type (資料類型) articleen