Filozofija, Tu Weiming i Tu Weimingov “Kontinuitet bića”
Philosophy, Tu Weiming, and Tu Weiming’s “The Continuity of Being” (1984)

Summary/Abstract: The writings of Tu Weiming 杜維明 (*1940) are anthologized in disciplines as different as Religious Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Business Administration, and Political Theory. Perhaps the issue is more complicated and the multidisciplinary reception of Tu’s work has to do with different differentiations of disciplines. Orperhaps it is more pragmatic and has to do with the fact that Tu is often included in discussions as arepresentative of China, of the Chinese worldview, of Chinese philosophy or of Confucianism. In this paper, the author sets out to examine reasons for which his texts, or at least one of them, the onepresently to be analysed, might be claimed to be ‘philosophy’. The claim is not uncontroversial. Hitherto, judgments have largely focussed on the person of Tu Weiming rather than on his texts. Thusit has been said that he is a “missionary” (Liu Shuxian) and “evangelizer” (Umberto Bresciani) of Confucianism or “both an intellectual activist and an active thinker” (Ezra F. Vogel), respectively drawing on the tensions between philosophy and religion and between philosophy and politics.

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