Fu Peirong

Fu Peirong (傅佩榮; born December 16, 1950) is a scholar, writer, educator and philosopher from Taiwan. He uses pen names Fu Hua and Fu Xuan. He was born in Kaohsiung and grew up in Taoyuan, with ancestral roots in Shanghai. He is a retired professor and former director of the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophy at National Taiwan University. He held positions as a visiting professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium and Leiden University in the Netherlands. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly journal Philosophy and Culture, the chief editor of Dawn Culture Company, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Philosophy. Fu Peirong has authored numerous books and essays on Eastern and Western philosophy for the popular readers. His writings span various fields including Confucianism, Taoism, Western philosophy, the Book of Changes (Yijing) divination, and many others. He excels at translating traditional ideas into modern philosophy that contemporary audiences can easily digest. He frequently delivers public speeches and advocates for a slightly modified interpretation of the Confucian principle which posits "human nature tends toward goodness."