Curie Virág

Senior Research Fellow , University of Edinburgh

Curie Virág is a senior research fellow in Chinese philosophy and intellectual history at the University of Edinburgh, where she is co-project director of PAIXUE, an ERC-funded, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research project dedicated to classicising learning in medieval Chinese and Byzantine thought and learned culture. She is associate editor of the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and the author of The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy (2017).

Written by Curie Virág

Painting of a traditional Chinese funeral, people in white robes mourning around a deceased figure on a table.

Rituals create community by translating our love into action

For the Confucian Xunzi, love and gratitude are not just feelings in response to events but possibilities for social action

by Curie Virág