Patrick Edwin Moran

Patrick Edwin Moran

Born 1940

Undergraduate education:

•Stanford University, BA in Philosophy

Graduate education:

•National Taiwan University, MA in Philosophy

•Stanford University, MA in Chinese

•University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Chinese

The teachers who played major parts in my development include:

•James T. C. Liu

•WANG Shu-min

•TANG Jun-yi

•Mou Zong-san

•YAN Ling-feng

•OKAZAKI Teruyuki

•Derk Bodde

Growing up in a small town in Nebraska, I noticed early on that people were primarily interested in whom to blame and how to punish them. They had little interest in how to prevent problems by timely interventions. Then I picked up the Dao De Jing by Lao Zi and discovered a kindred spirit. If you get scratched because you petted Kitty from tail to head, whose fault is that?