Part One: Cosmology and Global Ethics 1. Harmonious Society, Globalization and Confucian Ethics 2. The functions of universality in ethics: a comparison between Aristotle and Mencius 3. Confucian Ethics for a Global World? --Why Not?! 4. The Essence of Confucianism as the Best Platform for a New World Philosophy of Harmonious Cooperation among Humankind 5. Cosmic Consciousness and Original Mind in the Co-creative Process 6. Confucian Cosmic Model and the Environment Part Two: Epistemology in Contrast 1. Structural Traits of Rationality Related to Some Confucian Insights 2. The Modernity of the Ancients: Christian Wolff's "Oration on the Practical Philosophy of Chinese" and Its Sino-European Context 3. Leibniz and Confucius: The Foundations of Cultural Exchange 4. On Virtue and Knowledge --How We Can Begin a Dialogue Between Confucius-inspired Philosophy and Western Philosophy 5. The In-itself-contradicting Nature of the Dao - interpreted within the Horizon ……