Harmonism as an Alternative

Keping Wang is a Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) where he was head of Aesthetics Section of CASS Institute of Philosophy from 2005 to 2016, philosophy professor of CASS Graduate School, and Professor of Beijing International Studies University where he worked as Director of Institute for Trans-cultural Studies over a decade. Professor Wang is a former visiting fellow of St. Anne’s College of Oxford University (2000), visiting Professor of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Sydney University (2010) and Sciences Politiques de Bordeaux (2017). His major writings in Chinese include the Moral Poetics in Plato’s Laws (2015), Plato’s Poetics in the Republic (2005, 2014) and Aesthetics in Tourism (2015), with publications in English including the Rediscovery of Sino-Hellenic Ideas (2016) and Reading the Dao: A Thematic Inquiry (2011).

The Musical Mode.- The Cosmic Mode.- The Generative Mode.- The Synthetic Mode.- The Reciprocal Mode.- The Paradigmatic Mode.- The Dialectic Mode.- The Receptive Mode.- The Sentimental Mode.- Harmonism versus Conflictism.- Harmonism and Ecumenism.- Harmonism and Neo-Communitarianism.- Harmony and Justice.- The Harmonious Society in Question.