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I consider it a singular plan of the fates that human cultivation and refinement should today be concentrated,as it were,in the two extremes of our continent,in Europe and in Tshina(as they call it),which adorns the Orient as Europe does the opposite edge of the earth.Perhaps Supreme Providence has ordained such an arrangement, so that as the most cultivated and distant peoples stretch out their arms to each
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ⅠThe subtitle of my lecture,evidently,implies a certain question:How can we begin a dialogue between Confucian-inspired and Western philosophy? The shortest possible answer to this question seems to me to be this:We can and we should begin such a dialogue by an immediate and personal dialogue between the philosophers them-
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Ⅰ.Introduction What is good(or wise) governance? What are its outcomes and fruits? What are its preconditions? These are questions that are relevant for any society at any moment in history.The answers given to these questions vary considerably,and consensus about the right way to take is often not found even in one single society.