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New Confucianism - Definition and Overview

New Confucianism (當代新儒學 or 當代新儒學 "Contemporary New Confucianism") is a new movement of Confucianism since the twentieth century. Not to be confused with Neo-Confucianism (宋明新儒家 "Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism").

The term itself seems to have been first used in the 1970s and was not found before the 1980s.

New Confucians include:

  • Tu Wei-ming of the Boston Confucians
  • American New Confucians include Professors Roger Ames -- renowned for his philosophical translations of Confucian texts -- and Professor Brian Van Norden at Vassar, who presents a virtue theory model of Confucianism.

See also summary at Confucianism#The New Confucian Movement

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