Tang Chun-I or Tang Junyi was a Chinese philosopher, who was one of the leading exponents of New Confucianism.
23 Facts About Tang Chun-i
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Tang Chun-i was influenced by Plato and Hegel, as well as by earlier Confucian thought.
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Tang Chun-i was briefly a student of Liang Shuming before transferring to National Central University.
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In 1927, Tang Chun-i became a follower of Xiong Shili after attending a series of lectures.
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Tang Chun-i graduated from National Central University in 1933, soon after becoming a lecturer there.
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In 1940, Tang Chun-i met his colleague and lifelong friend Mou Zongsan.
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Only five years later, in 1949, Tang Chun-i left Mainland China to live in Hong Kong, as part of an exodus of Chinese intellectuals to the British colony.
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Tang Chun-i went into exile in Hong Kong in 1949, after the declaration of the People's Republic of China, living there for the rest of his life.
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Tang Chun-i served as the founding chairman and the first Chair Professor of the Department of Philosophy of CUHK.
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Tang Chun-i established New Asia College, which to Tang symbolized his ambitious plan to save Chinese culture.
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Tang Chun-i was particularly fixated on the fact that New Asia College was established exactly 2500 years after the birth of Confucius, often claiming that the timing was not merely coincidental, but significant as it marked a new era in Chinese history.
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Tang Chun-i's work has mainly been influential in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States.
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Tang Chun-i believed the message of Confucianism was the affirmation of human life as it exists.
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Tang Chun-i devoted much of his career to exploring how to modernize China without compromising its defining traditional values.
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Tang Chun-i saw the individual's connection to traditional values as the way of maintaining an authentic life that would otherwise be by threatened by the emptiness of modernity.
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Tang Chun-i argues that the lack of a dualist distinction as truth is a defining trait of Chinese philosophy.
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Tang Chun-i was among the most prominent advocates of Neo-Confucianism in the 20th century.
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For example, Tang Chun-i's concept of the heart-mind, a single entity responsible for cognition, emotion, and will, is an originally Neo-Confucian idea.
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Tang Chun-i argued that the heart-mind is the key to all human understanding in his 1977 book Life, Existence, and the Horizons of the Heart-Mind.
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Tang Chun-i concludes that the metaphysical world has moral qualities because virtues help people to align themselves harmoniously with the universe.
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Tang Chun-i attempted to systematize the moral idealism in his final book Life, Existence, and the Horizons of the Heart-Mind in 1977.
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Tang Chun-i argues that the human heart-mind, the source of cognition, emotion, and will, is key to understanding the world, and that in integrating of reason and emotion, the heart-mind can respond correctly in a given situation.
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Tang Chun-i intentionally incorporated Abrahamic, Buddhist, and Confucian ideas of virtue into these last three horizons.