Yingzi Hu – författare

The book depicts a unique historical and cultural phenomenon, the philosophy of Chinese moral education, in an attempt to capture the essence of Chinese culture. While tracing the historical journey of this philosophy, the book rearranges and interprets the conceptual frameworks concerning moral education in various Chinese philosophical schools and religions. In so doing, it summarizes the ideas of human relations, man and nature, cosmology, moral virtues, and educational approaches, posing intriguing questions about how they have influenced Chinese characteristics, social norms, and value orientations. In particular, the book brings up discussions on the culture of family and state, the challenges that the philosophy had encountered in early modern and present China, as well as the prospect of regeneration of the philosophy and its significance for our world today. This is the book to read if you want to have a deep understanding about China and its belief and educational system.

The book depicts a unique historical and cultural phenomenon, the philosophy of Chinese moral education, in an attempt to capture the essence of Chinese culture. While tracing the historical journey of this philosophy, the book rearranges and interprets the conceptual frameworks concerning moral education in various Chinese philosophical schools and religions. In so doing, it summarizes the ideas of human relations, man and nature, cosmology, moral virtues, and educational approaches, posing intriguing questions about how they have influenced Chinese characteristics, social norms, and value orientations. In particular, the book brings up discussions on the culture of family and state, the challenges that the philosophy had encountered in early modern and present China, as well as the prospect of regeneration of the philosophy and its significance for our world today. This is the book to read if you want to have a deep understanding about China and its belief and educational system.

This book develops a systematic philosophical account of moral cultivation as a foundational principle structuring Chinese civilization. It brings domains often treated in isolation into a unified perspective—cosmology, ethics, subjectivity, education, art, and socio-political order. It argues that the lived practice of moral cultivation, rather than purely rational or religious frameworks, constitutes China’s civilizational orientation. Traversing Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, and Buddhist traditions, and deploying original concepts such as the Taijitu mode of thinking, the generative character of the cosmos and of virtue, the greater self, and a morally grounded form of democratic life, it discloses an internally coherent and evolving whole. The book presents this tradition not only as indispensable for understanding China, but also as a significant resource for cross-cultural philosophical engagement with global challenges.