Confucianism, Enlightenment, and the Comparative Study of Religion

Authors

Tim Madigan, St. John Fisher UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-26-2023

Abstract

Tu Wei-ming is the foremost authority writing today on the relevance of Confucian ethics to the Western World. He has helped to revitalize an interest in this ancient worldview, and has offered it as an antidote to many of the excesses of the Enlightenment Project which has dominated Western thinking for centuries. Interestingly, the Enlightenment itself was greatly influenced in its early stages by the knowledge of Confucianism which early Western explorers in China sent back to a fascinated European audience.

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Published online - Philosophy of Religion (June 26, 2023)

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Madigan, Tim (2023). "Confucianism, Enlightenment, and the Comparative Study of Religion." Philosophy of Religion (Online) .

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