Huang Yusheng is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). His main research areas include first philosophy, German philosophy, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and legal philosophy.
From July 1990 to May 2009, he worked at the Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, serving successively as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor.
In June 2009, he joined the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University as a professor. From 2011 to 2017, he served as the deputy chair and later chair of the department. He currently holds concurrent positions as the vice president of the Chinese Society for Modern Foreign Philosophy and the director of the National Professional Committee for the Study of the World's Original Cultures.
Major Published Works
- *Time and Eternity: On the Problem of Time in Heidegger’s Philosophy* (1997)
- *Truth and Freedom: An Ontological Interpretation of Kant’s Philosophy* (2002)
- *The Encounter of Religion and Philosophy: Studies on the Christian Philosophy of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas* (2008)
- *Philosophy Ferrying Between Being and Non-Being: Studies on First Philosophy* (2019)
- *The Metaphysic of Rights* (2019)
In recent years, he has published key academic papers such as:
- “On Freedom, Difference, and Human Social Existence” (*Social Sciences in China*, No. 2, 2022)
- “Where Can We Imagine the Global Community From?” (*Tsinghua Social Sciences*, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2023)
- “Kant’s Breakthrough in the Greek Concept of Reason” (*Philosophical Trends*, No. 10, 2024)
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