Fiduciary society and confucian theory of Xin - On Tu Wei-ming's fiduciarity proposal

Asian Philosophy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 85-101

  Lu, Zhaolu ^a  

^a Bridgewater House   (United States)

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EID: 34347322701     PISSN: 09552367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09552360120087868     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. This idea is mentioned in various publications of Tu's and is developed in Tu, WEI- MING, Centrality and Commonality: An essay on Confucian religiousness (A revised and enlarged edition of Centrality and commonality: an essay on Chung-yung) (Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1989), ch. 3, whose earlier version was published in 1976. In what follows, I shall refer to this idea as 'the fiduciarity proposal' or simply 'Tu's proposal'.
2. Tu, WEI-MING, Humanity and Self-cultivation: Essays in Confucian thought (Berkeley, CA, Asian Humanities Press, 1979), p. 290.
3. Tu, Humanity and Self-cultivation: Essays in Confucian thought, op. cit., note 1, pp. 96-97.
4. Tu, WEI-MING, Confucian Ethics Today: The Singapore challenge (Singapore, Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore, Federal Publications, 1984), p. 83.
5. Tu, WEI-MING, Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian intellectual (Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1993), p. 28.
6. Tu, WEI-MING, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as creative transformation (Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1985), p. 140.
7. Tu, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as creative transformation, op. cit., note 2.
8. Cf. XUN ZI, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as creative transformation, op. cit., note 17, pp. 23 and 13.
9. See the report in People's Daily, 20 July 1999, p. 2.
10. MENG ZI, People's Daily, op. cit., note 15.
11. The other kinds of natural nobility are ren, and zhong (MENG ZI, People's Daily, op. cit., note 15, 6a/16).
12. DONG ZHONGSHU, People's Daily, op. cit., note 21.
13. SCHWARTZ, BENJAMIN I., The World of Thought in Ancient China (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1985), p. 80.
14. VAN NORDEN, BRYAN W., in: NIVISON, DAVID S. (Ed.), The Ways of Confucianism: investigations in Chinese philosophy (Chicago, IL, Open Court, 1996), p. 66.
15. YEARLY, LEE H., Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of virtue and conceptions of courage (Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1990).
16. Yan er you xin (KONG ZI, Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of virtue and conceptions of courage, op. cit., note 22, 1/7).
17. MENG ZI, Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of virtue and conceptions of courage, op. cit., note 15, 3a/4.
18. ROETZ, HEINER, Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age: A reconstruction under the aspect of the breakthrough toward postconventional thinking (Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1993), p. 120.
19. SHUN, KWONG-LOI, Mencius and Early Chinese Thought (Stanford, CA, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 21.
20. See KONG ZI, Mencius and Early Chinese Thought, op. cit., note 22, 17/6
21. MENG ZI, Mencius and Early Chinese Thought, op. cit., note 15, 7b/12.
22. HALL, DAVID & AMES, ROGER T., Thinking through Confucius (Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1987), p. 61.
23. You zhu ji zhi wei xin (MENG ZI, Thinking through Confucius, op. cit., note 15, 7b/25).
24. Tu, Thinking through Confucius, op. cit., note 7, pp. 12, 96 and 97.
25. Tong yan er xin, xin zai yan qian ('Chen Xin' in WEI ZHENG, Thinking through Confucius, op. cit., note 49).
26. Jie yu xie qing, bu shi qi guo, suo yi wei xin ye ('The movement of Heaven and Earth', in DONG ZHONGSHU, Thinking through Confucius, op. cit., note 21).
27. TU, WEI-MING, Confucianism, in: ARVIND SHARMA (Ed.), Our Religions (San Francisco, CA, Harper, 1993), p. 192.
28. Xin zhe he? Bu wang zhi wei ye (Lu JIUYUAN, op. cit., note 35, Vol. 32).
29. MENG ZI, Bu wang zhi wei ye, op. cit., note 15, 6a/16.
30. TU, Bu wang zhi wei ye, op. cit., note 52, p. 143.
31. KONG YI, op. cit., note 22, 1/2.
32. DE BARY, WILLIAM THEODORE, The Trouble with Confucianism (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1991), p. 97.
33. TU, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 1, p. 56.
34. The Trouble with Confucianism, Ibid., pp. 48, 66 and 67.
35. Zi gu jie you si, min wu xin bu li (KONG ZI, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 22, 12/7).
36. XUN ZI, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 34, 11/2.
37. See 'Cheng Xin' in WEI ZHENG, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 49.
38. ROETZ, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 42.
39. SCHWARTZ, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 37.
40. MENG ZI, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 15, la/7.
41. MENG ZI, The Trouble with Confucianism, Ibid., 4b/21. Thanks to Bryan W. Van Norden for suggesting that I consider this case in his comment on the earlier version of this paper, which was presented to the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophy Association on 2 April 1999.
42. Cf.'Wang Zhi' in XUN ZI, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 17.
43. ZHU XI, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 34, 6, 21;
44. LU JIUYUAN, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 35.
45. DE BARY, The Trouble with Confucianism, op. cit., note 66, p. 98.
46. This originally Herbert Fingarette's idea. See FINGARETTE, HERBERT, Confucius - the Secular and Sacred (New York, Harper & Row, 1972).
47. TU, Confucius, the Secular and Sacred New York, op. cit., note 5, p. 82.