Confucian or Fusion?

Confucian Revival and School Culture

Fusion promoter or fusion inhibitor?

ononuclear phagocytes can fuse to form osteoclasts or multinuclear giant cells. The latter are hallmarks of Crohn’s disease, granulomas, tumors, and fungal and HIV infections. Though the precise function of these syncytia remains unclear, Takeda et al. (page 945) now provide important new insights into phagocyte fusion, suggesting that the process may differ considerably from other types of cel...

Western ‘Sincerity’ and Confucian ‘Cheng’

In philology, both ‘sincerity’ and ‘cheng’ primarily mean, ‘to be true to oneself’. As a philosophical term, ‘sincerity’ roots in Aristotle’s ‘aletheutikos’. In medieval Europe, it is regarded as a neutral value that may either serve or disserve for ‘truth.’ As for Romantics, it is a positive value, and an individualistic concept whose two elements ‘true’ and ‘self’ refer to a person’s ‘true fe...

Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach

Holding an Aristotelian Mirror to Confucian Ethics?

It is an honor to be part of this book symposium on YU Jiyuan’s splendid book. The best way of repaying the honor, I believe, is to engage actively and critically with the issues Yu has raised. However, in this essay I will only be able to discuss selected aspects of this extremely rich, ambitious, erudite, and inspiring book. I shall focus on three of its most impressive achievements. The book...