TWO IMAGES OF MAN: CONFUCIAN AND KANTIAN

The main point of this paper is that the two images of man (Kantian and Confucian) are radically different from each other. The mainstream Con-fucianists (Confucius- cum -Mencius and their followers) and Kant have different foci and address different concerns and problems. Further, their manners of presentation are different, and the manners are reflections of the substantive issues they address respectively.