The answer is to reintroduce schools for the teaching of Confucian values as its own antidote to a world where the ability to act and talk with dignity and respect, civility,
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 04.02.2012
Learning is unceasing -- and is fulfilled in company -- in community with others, in cooperation with others, in care for others, in friendship with others.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 03.23.2012
To the Chinese, materialism is not superficial. It is meaningful, tantamount to advancement within society and faith in the future. Run amok, however, it corrupts ambition and threatens the country's social fabric.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 02.19.2012
And so, in turning toward Confucius we will look for what he believed to be that highest ideal of which he felt each and every person was capable. Such an ideal was captured for Confucius in the term chün tzu, Noble Person.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 01.29.2012
But do family values have to have a political position? Can't they be just family values, something that we all treasure as a mark of our fundamental humanity and humaneness?
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 12.25.2011
Confucius is rarely heard in contemporary debate. But what indeed would Confucius make of this latest public ovation for what the audience perceived to be the benefits of capital punishment?
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The relation of learning and thought is critical to Confucius. Learning is the acquisition of knowledge. But knowledge without thought is perilous indeed.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 10.18.2011
Confucius witnessed increasingly hegemonic factions garner power with no attempt to emulate the ways of virtue spelled out by the ancients. There was nothing but the quest for power and authority with no accountability. Sound familiar?
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 10.15.2011
Could the Confucian perspective on learning be the reason for Russell's great admiration of Chinese thought after his visit to China in the early 20th century?
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 09.16.2011
In the leisure of our own thought, we ask the question of the nature of Confucius' leisure ... We tend not to think of a founder of a religious tradition or their zealot followers as having many moments of leisure! But is that an accurate impression?
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 09.09.2011
There is a remarkable comparison to be made between Confucius' utilization of jen, goodness, and Martin Buber's idea of "I and Thou."
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 08.16.2011
In this orientation toward an ethical stance, is Confucianism really very much different from other major religious traditions?
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 08.06.2011
Is Confucianism best represented as a political system or is Confucianism best described as a religious tradition?
Thomas David DuBois | Posted 07.23.2011
Many international observers fail to appreciate that religion in China has never been treated as a matter of personal choice. It's hard to imagine that the current regime would suddenly start to view things differently.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 07.18.2011
We need to understand that in the centuries following Confucus' death, his teachings became the official ideology of the Chinese state, a position held with virtually no break into the 20th century.
Rajiv Malhotra | Posted 09.26.2011
This is not about superiority or inferiority but about positioning religious differences as humanity's multifaceted experience and a shared resource.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
What is Chinese culture? Now and forever, perpetual yet shape-shifting,in modern and ancient guises, the Chinese worldview can be distilled down to ...
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
Just because China has embraced Christmas does not mean the country is becoming Western. Looks can be deceiving. Christmas tunes play on radio sta...
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
The notion of a true mind is an upwelling theme in 16th-century Chinese philosopher Hung Ying-ming'sThe Unencumbered Spirit, a deliciously subversive alternative to Confucius' Analects, the Buddha's sutras and Lao Tze's Daodeqing.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
In China, there is tension between a new reality of "progressive" behavior and traditional cultural imperatives.
Nicolas Berggruen | Posted 05.25.2011
China may have invented the first printing press in 593 and published the first woodblock-printed newspaper in 713. But in 2010 it wants to curb the newest information innovation led by Google.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
Sustainable 21st century growth will be achieved if, over time, America increases savings and long-term investment and China reduces saving rates and ...
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
The Chinese worldview, not to mention its brandscape, is profoundly different from Western markets. Here are a few "golden rules" marketers must know before landing in the mainland.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
The vast majority of Chinese believe an empowered central government guarantees individual and national gain. But this is a clear case of an evolving relationship between rulers and ruled.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011
China's recessionary environment has yielded a new conservatism that will not dissipate until vigorous growth is restored.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012