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Rebecca Alpert Jim Biechler Marcus Braybrooke Ellen T. Charry Leobard D'Souza David Efroymson Gabriele Feyler Stefan Feyler Eugene Fisher Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer Krystina Gorniak-Kocikowska Yitz Greenberg Wan-Li Ho Sanaullah Kirmani Reinhard Kirste Hans Küng Lihua Liu Jack Malinowski Patricia Martinez Sergio Mazza Alan Mittleman Ronald Modras Paul Mojzes Malcolm Nazareth Angelika Quade Ida Raming Virginia Kaib Ratigan John Sahadat Simone Schaupp Ingrid Shafer Shu-hsien Liu Thomas Thompson Catherine Berry Stidsen
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Shu-hsien Liu It is my pleasure to write something for Len, sorry that I did not have a chance to meet with Arlene, but I admire their work as a team. I have known Len for a long time because we both have been actively engaged in Confucian-Christian dialogues. But it was only after we joined the UNESCO Universal Ethics Project that we had much closer contact than before. In the meeting at Naples in 1997 I found that in addition to our common interest in global ethic, we both like to take walks, and prefer to go to the conference site by foot. I really appreciate his unselfish attitude. Even though he has his own version of a declaration of a global ethic, he offered to support Hans Kung's version in the UNESCO conferences. Though the attempt was not successful, several of us are working independently to promote global ethic in differenct parts of the world since then. Len has been particularly active. He included the article I delivered in Naples in a volume edited by him, and asked me to participate in a round table on global ethic in the World Congress of Philosophy held in Boston in 1998. I also invited him to participate in a conference on "Contemporary Confucianism and Western Culture" held at Academia Sinica in Taipei in 2003. Len offered to publish the articles in English in a special issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies and also in book form at the same time in a volume coedited by him, myself, and John Berthrong of Boston University to promote further dialogues between spiritual traditions East and West. I find Len's perception that we are moving away from an age of monologue toward an age of dialogue is full of insight. And it is unfortunate that his warning "dailogue, or death" was totally ignored before the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York in 2001. But it is never too late to learn. And Confucius can always serve as our model, knowing that it is impossible to achieve our goals, still work hard without fatigue so as not to realize that old age is coming. Best wishes for Len and Arlene. Shu-hsien Liu
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