Confucian scholar Tu Weiming has written that Western ideology “is now fully embraced as the unquestioned rationale for development in East Asia.” Tu sees in Western ideology “aggressive anthropocentrism . . . the conspicuous absence of community . . . and the disintegration of human togetherness at all levels from family to the nation.” He says that Western “willingness to tolerate inequality, and the faith in the salvific power of self-interest . . . have greatly poisoned the good well of progress.”
