濟世之道：回歸世界古典哲學

In an Age of Global Decline: The Need for a Return to a World Classical Philosophy

Following Huang Chun-chieh and Roger T. Ames’s insightful observations on the history of Chinese thought, let me suggest that the unity between self and other--other humans and the world’s species--that is expressed in Chinese philosophy lends itself to the moral sphere emerging from the empathic capability of our species and resonates with Frans de Waal’s thesis that empathy is an evolved feeling that is at the root of all morality.1 Moreover, this moral sense should be at the root of politics, social interactions, the creation of societies and cultures, and the basis of our educational systems, for it is clearly the nurturing root of the Confucian sage and Greek philosopher.