The Spiritual Crisis of Modernity and Tu Wei-Ming'S Concept of Self-Cultivation

This article dwells upon the spiritual problems in modern Chinese society. The term 'spirituality' covers not only the value of ethical categories on the traditional China, but also the humanism as the tandem of both religious and ethical components towards human beings. The basic categories of Confucian ethics, 'reinterpreted' through the tradition of analytical philosophy, have acquired a new character - Tu Wei-ming gave them the new understanding through the concept of Self-Cultivation. The process of cultivating occurs for the sake of the human involved into that and is not caused by any external factors.