Editor's Note

Abstract

In the Fall 1973 issue of Chinese Studies in Philosophy we presented translations of some selected writings of Professor T'ang Chün-i, whose Confucianistic-Humanistic philosophy is well known in Asia and beginning to be appreciated in this country. In this sequel to that issue we present Professor T'ang's expositions of his thoughts on the reconstruction of the humanistic spirit, on the development of the Chinese humanistic spirit, as well as on the relation between cultural consciousness and moral reason. In these writings Professor T'ang argues that a universal religion can be founded on the moral conscience of man and that specifically it can be founded on the moral nature or mind of man as understood by Confucianism. He also presents his critique of some Western and Buddhistic philosophical doctrines or views in a framework of distinctions between the proper humanistic thought on the one hand and the super-, non-, and subhumanistic thoughts on the other.