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The Human Calling by Daofeng He

What’s it About?

The Human Calling is a vigorously researched and profoundly non secular narrative historical past of the world’s spiritual actions and appears forward to what classes from historical past might be utilized as individuals navigate a technological age.

“It’s time to change the course of historical past, beginning with the previous.”
–The Daybreak of Every little thing

Daofeng He’s The Human Calling is a sweeping and highly effective account of the philosophical foundations of Jap and Western Civilization, a daring and unapologetic Christian anthropology, a jeremiad in opposition to empty materialism and unbridled individualism, and a clarion name for the return to absolute reality and the ethical grounding of religion.

It’s a sensible philosophical treatise, but additionally “an account of the lengthy and tough journey a Chinese language atheist took to seek out God” instructed from a novel perspective and historic place. The purpose of the e-book is nothing lower than a “third nice awakening” or deep reflection to reset humanity’s course away from the brink of annihilation again towards the human calling of “self-discipline, self-motivation, self-affirmation” discovered by way of religion in God. It’s not an evangelical sermon designed to transform, however a masterful rational argument, supported with deep historic evaluation, designed to persuade. 

The e-book just isn’t aimed toward specialists in philosophy, however reasonably written for an knowledgeable, open-minded viewers. Nonetheless, the broad scope and depth of the e-book make it difficult for even probably the most mental reader, however the readability and consistency of He’s argument reward the affected person scholar with plentiful insights and lucid explanations of advanced concepts. 

The thesis in broad strokes is robust and clear: mankind developed in teams to make and create, reworking the surroundings by way of human potential. Conflicts arising between particular person freedom and the communal profit might be regulated by way of human obligation (social ethics) and human requirement (state legal guidelines), however true, non secular that means in life is realized solely by way of the “self-discipline, self-motivation, self-affirmation” that’s human calling grounded within the absolute reality of God. This philosophical argument is supported by way of historic evaluation protecting three thousand years of human expertise.

EPIC SCOPE AND PROFOUND DEPTH

The Human Calling’s epic scope and profound depth make it a veritable storehouse of compact quick programs on a staggering vary of subjects, from pre-Socratic philosophy to medieval Catholic Apologists, to 19th century continental philosophy and American pragmatism, to the legal guidelines of thermodynamics, to a abstract rationalization of the 2008 monetary disaster so pithy and convincing that it’s now on my listing of required studying for my college students.

The argument can be boldly revisionist; He asserts that the medieval church was neither corrupt nor dogmatic however reasonably gave start to charitable organizations and universities; the Indian caste system was not the “darkish aspect of Indian tradition” that solidified political and social dominance, however reasonably a helpful division of labor with Brahmins serving as a “non secular paradigm” that held collectively tribal alliances; within the Western custom there was no battle between “religion and motive” and it was truly the search for God’s pure regulation that drove scientific inquiry from inside Christianity, not in opposition to it. These challenges to obtained knowledge (and extra) are offered in a direct and intellectually stimulating method. Even for many who may stay unconvinced, there’s a lot to study—and much more to consider—from studying this e-book.

China, not surprisingly, is a significant focus of the e-book, and its disappointing historical past serves as the principle foil for He’s championing of “Judeo-Christian civilization.” However his iconoclastic account typically verges on the lurid, and he holds Confucianism and imperial Confucian officers particularly contempt.

This revisionist stance takes difficulty with the brand new orthodoxy amongst world historians that China actually dominated the Eurasian world from 600 to 1600 CE and made an early “breakthrough to modernity” primarily based on Music-Ming Confucian rationalism and scientific worldview; certainly, some students go as far as to posit “the Jap origins of Western civilization.”

 In stark distinction, He argues that Neo-Confucianism had no “science” however solely “expertise,” no “dualism” or metaphysics, no sense of “pure regulation” however reasonably solely relative reality and “dogmatic moral codes.” Worse, He sees Confucian human potential as debased within the “slavish” service of imperial energy, the last word sin of worshipping man as god. 

Maybe Daofeng He’s hypercritical evaluation of Chinese language historical past stems from his personal bitter expertise of it. Mao Zedong is nowhere talked about within the textual content, however his darkish presence looms in its depiction of despotic cruelty, and the deification (and base servitude) of officialdom reads like an account of the Chinese language Communist Get together.

A DEEPLY INFORMED WORK OF SCHOLARSHIP

Born in 1956, He grew up within the countryside. His earliest recollections are of the Nice Leap Ahead famine, the worst in human historical past.  His formal schooling was interrupted at age ten by the Cultural Revolution and didn’t resume till he was twenty-one. Like a lot of his mental friends, He was doubtless self-taught, with a ensuing polymath perspective that led him to query the revolution.

He got here of age throughout the heady and hopeful “reform and opening” interval of the Eighties, with its “Tradition Fever” critiques of the “vacuum of values” and “disaster of perception,” solely to endure the crushing disappointment of the Tiananmen Bloodbath of 1989. These experiences little question form not solely Daofeng He’s essential evaluation of China’s historical past, but additionally his deep skepticism of state intervention in aggressive market programs and, above all, his name for absolute reality as forceful response to Mao’s “nice lie.”

Whereas The Human Calling is a profoundly conservative Christian manifesto addressing an age of impending disaster, it’s at coronary heart a deeply knowledgeable work of scholarship. Any “liberal” social critic might agree with lots of the factors raised and all readers might be moved by He’s passionate empathy and protection of charitable welfare. Daofeng He essentially advocates a peaceable imaginative and prescient of tolerance and rationality, an attraction to our higher angels of charity, and a return to agency ethical grounding—a humane response to the human calling.

In regards to the Creator:

An entrepreneur, economist, philanthropist, and coverage researcher, Daofeng He was born in Yunnan, a rural province in southwest China, and presently resides in Bethesda, MD. Within the US, Mr. He has appeared on CBS, and Fox Information and the podcast “Veteran’s and Group Wholesome” by Sunday Journal (WMAL 105.9 FM) to debate his COVID-19 rescue efforts, which he described as asking God’s calling to assist fellow Individuals. By means of his Maryland-based household basis, he launched the Life Preservation Initiative (LPI) in March 2020 to donate 1,000,000 units of PPE to frontline healthcare employees and weak communities within the struggle in opposition to COVID-19. Beneath Mr. He’s management, the LPI collaborated with Christian organizations such because the Salvation Military, Bowery Mission, and the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. The LPI and Mr. He have been coated in 23 press shops together with NBC, ABC, and New Evangelization Tv. In 1994, Mr. He based the Human Sources Growth Middle of Western China to work with the World Financial institution to extend labor mobility from inland rural areas to developed coastal areas in China. This undertaking efficiently resettled 600,000 employees from impoverished counties and reskilled them to carry out manufacturing facility jobs or discover different employment. He then went on to chair many profitable enterprise endeavors. In 1999, whereas chairman of Huaxia West Firm, he determined to moreover function appearing president of the China Basis for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), refusing a wage. Main an NGO independently of the federal government got here with important political dangers, however Mr. He was decided to see social reform come to China and took many measures to guard CFPA’s work. Mr. He has been revealed extensively in China. In 2019, Mr. He obtained the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the White Home for his excellent service to fellow Individuals and people most in want. The identical 12 months, Mr. He obtained three extra awards, together with the United Nations NGO/Division of Public Data’s Excellent Achievement Award for Worldwide Alleviation, the International Excellent Social Entrepreneur Award on the International Company Social Duty Summit in New York, and the Worldwide Management Basis’s Management Award in Washington, DC.

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Publish Date: 4/26/2022

Style: Historic, Nonfiction

Creator: Daofeng He

Web page Depend: 578 pages

Writer: Morgan James Religion

ISBN: 9781631956911

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