Selfhood and fiduciary community: A Smithian reading of Tu Weiming's confucian humanism
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7 (4):349-365 (2008)
| Abstract | 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. Tuâs mode of thinking tallies well with Wilfred C. Smithâs vision of religion, specifically the latterâs 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 Smithâs 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 | |||||||||
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