Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Confucius once remarked that "one may be venerated as a teacher if one is good at grasping thoroughly what is the new by keeping past teachings alive".1It is appropriate for us to quote this famous saying at the start of the Festschrift in honor of Chung-ying Cheng, who was commonly perceived as one of the modern new Confucian masters.As the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy (JCP) (since 1973) for more than 51 years, Cheng made a significant contribution to our perception of, and understanding about, the world and life in philosophical 1 Lunyu 2:11, my translation.This sentence has been translated in a variety of ways to present different translators' understandings.For example, Edward Slingerland has translated it as that "Both keeping past teachings alive and understanding the present -someone able to do this is worthy of being a teacher."(Confucius -Analects, with selections from traditional commentaries, translated by Edward Slingerland [Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2003], 11), D. C. Lau renders it this way "A man is worthy of being a teacher who gets to know what is new by keeping fresh in his mind what he is already familiar with" (Confucius -The Analects (Lun Yu), translated with an introduction by D. C. Lau [London: Penguin Books, 1979], 64), while an earlier translation by William Edward Soothill is like that "He who keeps on reviewing his old and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others" (The Analects or the Conversations of Confucius with his Disciples and Certain Others,
Source: Journal of Chinese Philosophy
Author: Xinzhong Yao
Institution: Renmin University of China
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410573238