A research on Liang Shuming’s reciprocal centeredness

Liang Shuming’s”reciprocal centeredness”shows us a new way of gaining rights, he suggests that the realization of one’s personal
rights will be naturally entitled via his fulfillment of necessary obligations.It’s likely that people lead a meaningful life among
harmonious interactions rather than through the “outward demand” of rights,though the status he assigned to rights needs to be
reexamined.Liang’s pre-modern narratives induce him to neglect the potential tension between rights and obligations.He also
simplified a community as a mono-opinion entity, ignoring the potential conflicts between individuals in a group. So the two tasks I
hope to accomplish are to modernize the idea of ” reciprocal centeredness ” and to optimize relevant narratives in the relationship
between group and individuals.

Faculty Supervisor:

Timothy Cheek

Student:

Partner:

East China Normal University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: