Tu Weiming -- On Confucian Humanism and the Ethic of Responsibility

Chinese Statecraft







“The intellectuals cannot produce, cannot manufacture, cannot exchange goods; but they are not useless because they help the governance and sometimes, in an idealized sense, they can be critics and even teachers of kings.”






This is a transcript of a public lecture held at Stanford University on Feb 21st 2012.



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