
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
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).