Cheng Hao

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  8 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  8 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Mou ZongsanKEEL

  Contemporary New Confucianism — moral metaphysics from intellectual intuition.

• Liang ShumingCARTOGRAPHER

  Three cultures compared — Chinese, Indian, Western paths of life.

• Tu WeimingCARTOGRAPHER

  Confucian humanism in dialogue with global ethics.

• Wang FuzhiCARTOGRAPHER

  Anti-quietist Confucian — qi is the only reality; history is its becoming.

• Cheng YiCARTOGRAPHER

  Investigation of things — Neo-Confucian study as moral cultivation.

• Bernard LonerganCARTOGRAPHER

  Insight — the structure of intentional consciousness as cognitive method.

Concepts where Cheng Hao sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Confucianism
  The self is constituted by its relationships. Ritual + role + cultivation, not freedom from these.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Cheng Hao's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Negative visualization →

  Imagine losing what you have, briefly and concretely, to remember it's a gift.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.