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Tu Weiming, Liberal Education, and the Dialogue of the Humanities

Standish, P; (2020) Tu Weiming, Liberal Education, and the Dialogue of the Humanities. In: Kenklies, K and Lewin, D, (eds.) East Asian Pedagogies. (pp. 81-101). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

This chapter discusses aspects of the work of Tu Weiming in relation to the idea of a liberal education. It does this in the context of broader questions about the nature, problems, and possibilities of comparative philosophy. Dialogue emerges in Tu’s work both as a substantive topic and as integral to aspects of his approach to philosophy and to his commitment to the dissemination of Confucian thought. In spite of Tu’s obvious success in many respects, some problems with this engagement with and in dialogue are identified, and these in turn are related to his treatment of questions of language and translation – in particular to his somewhat negative attitude to philosophy’s linguistic turn. The comparison of Confucian approaches with the idea of a liberal education enables reconsideration of ideas that are central to education, and in so doing the discussion demonstrates the value of comparative approaches in the study of education.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Tu Weiming, Liberal Education, and the Dialogue of the Humanities
ISBN-13: 978-3-030-45672-6
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45673-3_6
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45673-3_6
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10114090
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